Yeo Siew Hua, a Singaporean director born in 1985, made his feature film debut in 2009 with the dramatic film In the House of Straw. In 2014, he directed the musical documentary The Obs: A Singapore Story, and in 2018, he released his second fiction feature, A Land Imagined, which garnered numerous accolades at international festivals, including the Golden Leopard at Locarno. Making his debut at Venice, he features Lee Kang-sheng, Tsai Ming-liang’s regular actor, known for his presence in all of the Master’s films.