A Land Imagined (2018)

Original title

幻土

Directed by

Siew Hua Yeo

Genre

drama film, mystery film

Country

Singapore, France

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

15

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 60 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A police investigator in Singapore looks into the disappearance of a construction worker. He uncovers a mystery involving the man's life and the reclamation of land.

noirmysteriousslow-burnatmosphericmelancholictensedreamlikeunsettling

What happens

A Land Imagined (Chinese: 幻土) is a 2018 neo-noir mystery thriller film written and directed by Yeo Siew Hua. A Singapore-France-Netherlands co-production, the film tells the story of a police investigator who uncovers the truth behind the disappearance of a construction worker. The film premiered in competition on 7 August 2018, at the 71st Locarno Film Festival, and won the top prize of the festival, the Golden Leopard. At Locarno, Yeo also won the Junior Jury award and a Special Mention award. In December 2018, A Land Imagined played in competition at the 29th Singapore International Film Festival, where it was named Best Asian Feature Film by a jury led by Hong Kong director Stanley Kwan. It is the first time a Singaporean film has won the award. The film was released in Singapore theatres on 21 February 2019. It was selected as the Singaporean entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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