Jenjira Pongpas

After resigning from the scientific organizations and hearing that her mother was sent to the hospital, Fang, a middle-aged woman, returns to her hometown ‘Don Hai’ with her daughter. This arrival brings back her bad memory when her father tried to cancel the ceremony in the village, and she has been blamed for being his daughter ever since.

A short film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul in collaboration with composer Rafiq Bhatia and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and its storytellers.

A woman lies awake at night. Nearby, a set of theatre backdrops unspools itself, unveiling two alternate landscapes. Upon the woman’s blue sheet, a flicker of light reflects and illuminates her realm of insomnia.

Canadian actor and filmmaker Connor Jessup (Closet Monster, Falling Skies) profiles Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a maverick of Thai cinema who explores the slippery nature of time and consciousness with a sublimely idiosyncratic, often surreal approach to film form.

ABLAZE premiered at the 27th Singapore Film Festival, November 24, 2016

"Fever Room" features Jenjira (Jen) and Banlop (Itt), two of Apichatpong’s regular actors who also appear in his film, "Cemetery of Splendour". Like the film, this projection-performance presents the layers of reality and fantasy. Apichatpong fuses his memories with the actors’ and fictionalises the narrative. Here the people takes refuge in dreams while their land is on a brink of collapse, echoing Thailand’s present state of military dictatorship.

Una solitaria ama de casa de mediana edad atiende a un soldado con la enfermedad del sueño, cayendo en alucinaciones que desencadenan en sueños extraños, fantasmas y romances.

This film depicts Bunleua Sulilat’s temple/sculpture garden 'Sala Keoku', located in northern Thailand. Passages of blackness sporadically dissolve under the fitful internal illumination of sparklers, which light up to reveal Sulilat’s unorthodox temple populated with a fantastical concrete menagerie of beasts and figures; the sculptures range from the broad, whale-like contours of a frog’s face, to a cavalcade of dogs on mopeds, to a pair of skeletons partially embracing as if sitting for a double portrait. These images are interspersed with those of an older Thai couple mysteriously wandering around the temple like wraiths, the woman’s plodding progress hampered by the use of crutches.

Mekong Hotel es un documental acerca de un hotel situado cerca del río Mekong en el noreste de Tailandia. El río marca la frontera entre Tailandia y Laos. En las habitaciones y las terrazas, Apichatpong y su equipo reconstituyen una película llamada Ecstasy Garden, que él mismo había escrito hace algunos años. El documental conjuga diferentes aspectos, la realidad y la ficción, desvelando los vínculos que unen a una madre vampiro a su hija, a los jóvenes enamorados al río. Filmado en la época en la que Tailandia fue víctima de inundaciones, Mekong Hotel navega entre los ámbitos de la demolición y la política, evocando un sueño a la deriva.

Sufriendo de insuficiencia renal aguda, el tío Boonmee ha decidido pasar sus últimos días rodeado de sus seres queridos en el campo. Sorprendentemente, el fantasma de su esposa fallecida parece cuidar de él, y su hijo perdido regresa a casa en una forma no humana. Contemplando las razones de su enfermedad, Boonmee camina por la jungla con su familia a una cueva misteriosa : el lugar de nacimiento de su primera vida.

A filmmaker captures images that characterize the violence and repression as well as the hope of rebirth and remembrance in northeastern Thailand.

Morakot is a derelict and defunct hotel in the heart of Bangkok that opened its doors in the 1980's: a time when Thailand shifted gears into accelerated economic industrialization and a time when Cambodians poured into Thai refugee camps after the invasion of Vietnamese forces. It was a hosting time. Later, when the East Asian financial crisis struck in 1997, these reveries collapsed. Like Kamanita, the unchanged Morakot is a star burdened with (or fueled by) memories. Apichatpong collaborated with his three regular actors, who recounted their dreams, hometown life, bad moments, and love poems, to re-supply the hotel with new memories.

Glistening objects from a jewelry collection inspired by carnivorous plants are transformed into a colourful sea of garden creatures through hand-drawn animations of roots, insects and various other organisms. A loving tribute to Weerasethakul's mother's garden. Commissioned by Dior; first presented at Musée de l’Orangerie, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, to mark the opening of a new set of jewellery designed by Victoire de Castellane, 27 February 2007.

The Anthem is a celebration of filmmaking and the viewing experience. In Thailand, before every cinema film screening, there will be a Royal Anthem before the feature presentation. The purpose is to honour the King. It is one of the rituals imbedded in Thai society to give a blessing to something or someone before certain ceremonies. The Anthem presents a 'Cinema Anthem' that praises and blesses the approaching feature for each screening. This audio-visual purification process is performed by three old ladies. They also channel energy to the audience in order to give them a clear mind.

A story about director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s parents who were both doctors, and his memories of growing up in a hospital environment.

A gang of local thugs come in and start roughing up the customers and get abusive with the daughter. Suddenly, an elaborately coifed and tastefully dressed woman shows up and rescues the young woman and her father from further harm. This is Iron Pussy.

Historia de amor entre una activa trabajadora de fábrica (Roong) y un minimalista inmigrante ilegal (Min), en la jungla de Tailandia.

Rainbow se convierte en el centro de atención de la escuela internacional de Phaiket, ya que sus nuevos compañeros quieren conocer los detalles de una siniestra muerte ocurrida en la escuela del norte donde antes estudiaba. Rainbow les explica que el causante de la muerte, es el teléfono 999-99-99 que promete concederte cualquier deseo, aunque luego lo puedas pagar con la propia vida. Atreveté a llamar, atreveté a morir.

Jan Dara es un joven tailandés, cuya primera experiencia sexual se lleva a cabo durante su infancia con su nana. Tras un enfrentamiento con su familia, en el que su hermana lo acusa de abuso sexual, Jan Dara huye de su casa y alimenta su interior con un irreparable odio contra los que antes amaba. Años después, Jan Dara regresa en busca de venganza sin saber que lo que encontrará será un mundo completamente distinto al de su niñez. Así, se enreda en una obsesión tormentosa con las tres mujeres que habitan su casa, hacia un destino catastrófico.

In 1946, just after World War 2, bandits rule the countryside of Siam. The notorious Bai rises to become the king of bandits and police chief Yodying has been ordered to apprehend Bai dead or alive.

Film inspired by two things: an article written by a Thai woman who went Sri Lanka on a religious pilgrimage by climbing a holy mountain and sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke's 'The Fountain of Paradise' which sets in a fictional land based on a Sri Lankan landscape.