Director: Yeo Siew Hua
Script: Yeo Siew Hua
Cinematographer: Urata Hideho
Editing: Daniel Hui
Sound: Louis Bart, Gilles Benardeau, Damien Guillaume
Music: Teo Wei Yong
Cast: Peter Yu, Liu Xiaoyi, Guo Yue, Jack Tan, Ishtiaque Zico
Production: Akanga Film Asia, Films de Force Majeure, Volya Films
Distribution:
Epicentre Films
55 Rue de la Mare
75 020 Paris
France
Tel: 0033 1 43 49 03 03
[email protected]
www.epicentrefilms.com
Year: 2018
Screening: 2019
DCP, Color, 95 mn,
O.V. Bengali, Mandarin, English with French Subtitles
Golden Leopard Locarno Film Festival 2018
Set in industrial Singapore, police investigator Lok must find missing migrant worker Wang. Wang suffers a worksite accident and is anxious about repatriation. Unable to sleep, Wang starts frequenting a dreamy cybercafé in the dead of the night. Hoping to look for some form of human connection in this foreign land he feels alienated from, Wang forms a virtual friendship with a mysterious gamer that takes a sinister turn. When Wang suddenly disappears, Lok digs deep into the trail leading to a land reclamation site, in order to uncover the truth beneath all that sand.
« As a country of immigrants, its demography (Singapore) is wholly dependent on migration policies and economic considerations. New migrants are brought into the fold to reinvigorate the imagination of this economic miracle – a success story that is built upon the backs of low wage migrant labourers from the region who are hired to build a nation they can never become a part of. » Yeo Siew Hua
