Exclusive: Singapore producer, director and showrunner Eric Khoo is putting together an anthology film, Kopitiam Days, with six local directors including Locarno Golden Leopard winner Yeo Siew Hua (A Land Imagined).

Also directing segments of the film are Shoki Lin, M. Raihan Halim, Tan Siyou, Don Aravind and Ong Kuo Sin. Khoo says the six segments will explore “what it means to live, work and love on this island we call home” in the year in which Singapore celebrates the 60th year of its founding.

Khoo is serving as executive producer and creative director on the anthology through his Singapore-based production house Zhao Wei Films, with Fran Borgia, founder of Singapore’s Akanga Film Asia, and Lim Teck, managing director of Singapore producer-distributor Clover Films, also on board as executive producers. Zhao Wei’s Tan Fong Cheng will also produce.

Scheduled to start production at the end of April, the...