Cult Appeal

A Land Imagined is the first Singaporean film to win the Golden Leopard award, the top prize at the Locarno Film Festival. It made its local premiere at last year's Singapore International Film Festival, where it picked up Best Picture in the Asian feature film competition - the first time a homegrown feature has ever won the accolade.

The Lynch-ian noir thriller will play to a wider audience now that it has been given a general theatrical release. Directed by Yeo Siew Hua, who studied philosophy at the National University of Singapore, the plot revolves around an insomniac police inspector (Peter Yu) investigating the mysterious disappearance of a Chinese construction worker (Liu Xiaoyi) from a land reclamation site.

Yeo is also a founding member of local indie film collective 13 Little Pictures which has produced other cult favourites like Liao Jiekai's Red Dragonflies (2010) and Wesley Leon Aroozoo's I Want To Go Home (2017).