Singaporean filmmaker Tan Siyou hasn’t spent much time at home since her debut feature Amoeba premiered in the Discovery section of Toronto International Film Festival.

Since then, the film screened at Busan film festival in the A Window On Asian Cinema section, before moving on to Pingyao, where it scooped three awards, including Best Actress for Ranice Tay’s performance, as well as the Youth Jury Award and Cinephilia Critics Award.

“It’s been interesting to see how audiences in different countries react to the film,” says Tan, who grew up in Singapore and moved to Los Angeles after studying film at Wesleyan University. “In Toronto, we had a lot of people of Asian origin who said it helped them explain to their fellow Canadians how things are back at home.

“In Korea, they underst

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