Final four films announced by SIFF to complete list of Golden Goblet nominees

Canopy, Eliza Graves, Point Blank, and The Sacred Arrow have been added.

The final group of films were announced on June 5 by the SIFF Committee after the original shortlist of 11 movies was revealed earlier in the week.

Canopy, directed by Aaron Wilson, tells the story of an Australian air force pilot during the Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1942. After parachuting from his plane, he lands in the Singapore jungle where he encounters a Chinese freedom fighter on the run. The pair help and support each other to emerge from the jungle. The director focuses on the atmosphere and environment in the midst of a harrowing war in this engrossingly creative movie.

Eliza Graves was adapted from Edgar Allen Poe’s short story The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether. It tells the story of a Harvard graduate who starts work in a mental hospital where, as time goes by, he notices that all the doctors and nurses are controlled by hysterical patients and eventually become their victims. The cast includes Kate Beckinsale from Pearl Harbor, Jim Sturgess who was in Cloud Atlas, and veteran British actor Michael Caine.

Point Blank is a remake of the French movie À Bout Portent. The wrongly convicted Yeo Hoon is sent to hospital after a traffic accident and his doctor Tae Jun is later attacked by an unknown assailant. In order to save his pregnant wife, who has been kidnapped, Tae Jun releases Yeo Hoon from hospital. Police investigators Young Jun and Monitor Song suspect something is wrong and start to investigate, setting up a breathtaking 36-hour chase.

Director Pema Tseden\'s The Sacred Arrow has also been added to the Golden Goblet shortlist. Tseden won the New Talent Award for Best Director at SIFF in 2006 for The Silent Holy Stones and followed up by collecting the Golden Goblet Jury Grand Prix in 2009 for Soul Searching.

The Scared Arrow is set in the traditional world of archery which has a thousand-year history in an area of Tibet. It is a story of conflict, friendship and love among young men from two villages who revel in the traditions of archery; but it also shows how Tibetans pass on their culture through the generations.

Chaired by Chinese actress Gong Li, the Golden Goblet Jury of 2014 includes Korean director Sang-soo Im, Japanese director Shunji Iwai, Chinese director Liu Jie, Iranian actor and director Peyman Moaadi, English director Sally Potter and Danish director and playwright Lone Wrede Scherfig.

Winners will be announced during the Award Ceremony on June 22.