Chalermrat Kaweewattana

Sorn, un refugiado, se forja una nueva identidad como trabajador sexual en Tailandia y acaba envuelto en el arriesgado plan de un cliente con la esperanza de mejorar su vida.

Zahara (Asmara Abigail), a stateless refugee, lives on a small remote island in Malaysia, where she makes a living selling turtle eggs. One day, Samad (Bront Palarae), claiming to be a university researcher, visits the island, wanting to employ Zahara to show him around. As the day goes on, Zahara and Samad become entangled in a dangerous dance of duplicity and deception.

Zahara (Asmara Abigail), a stateless refugee, lives on a small remote island in Malaysia, where she makes a living selling turtle eggs. One day, Samad (Bront Palarae), claiming to be a university researcher, visits the island, wanting to employ Zahara to show him around. As the day goes on, Zahara and Samad become entangled in a dangerous dance of duplicity and deception.

Arnold is a clever student who has won many academic awards. One day, he meets Bee who has an underground business of helping students to cheat their exams. Bee asks Arnold to join his cheating ring and offers him a lot of money. While Arnold is considering working with Bee, at his school, many students are not happy with the school’s disrespect of their freedom and they organize a big protest.

Por un lado, la historia profundamente emotiva de una mujer y, por otro, la del trágico pasado de un país y la explotación de su gente.

After his father disappears, a monk’s son spends a day and a night around the temple, where mysterious crystals have recently started growing on a bird’s nest. Intimate conversations, reflections, and a shared meal help him put everything into perspective and let go of the past.

Squish! is a meditation on the self through lurid and liquid forms; filtered through both old and foreseeable technology informed by Thai animation history and contemporary culture, and a constant process of constructing and deforming new selves to simulate ‘movements’. By extrapolating and redefining the terms of ‘movement’, be it through psychological, physical or political understandings, the work interweaves the medium of animation with a state of depression.

Based on a true story, "Pid pokati mai" is a reflection on human life during the Covid-19 pandemic and, also, under the Emergency Decree. "Pid pokati mai" follows many characters from different scenarios who share the same awkward situation.

Satsuki perdió a su novio, Hitoshi, en un accidente de coche. Incapaz de superar su pérdida, se sume en una profunda tristeza. A causa de ello, comienza a vagar por las mañanas como parte de su rutina diaria. En algún momento, recuerda una fantástica historia que escuchó tiempo atrás sobre el fenómeno de la sombra de la luna, el cual permite a una persona encontrarse con los muertos al final de la luna llena. Entonces, durante uno de sus paseos matutinos, Satsuki conoce a una misteriosa mujer llamada Urara.

In this updated homage to the 1930 German silent film of the same title, Thai artist Tulapop Saenjaroen examines the paradox of people relaxing while being filmed. As a film shoot appears to be in perpetual delay, crew members kill time fiddling on their smartphones, all the while under the persistent gaze of the camera.

Explores the landscape and stories within the community of Krabi, Southern Thailand. A major tourist destination in Thailand, the filmmakers want to capture the town in this specific moment where the pre-historic, the more recent past and the contemporary world collide, sometimes uneasily.

A filmmaker’s life isn’t an easy one. Write a screenplay, develop a project, wrap it all in a shiny package, pitch it to producers. And in the meantime try to survive and not forget how to actually shoot a film.

Nobi (Wanlop Rungkumjad), un pescador que vive cerca de la costa de Tailandia, colecciona piedra del bosque para cazar rayas gigantes. Además de las raíces y ramas que yacen en el bosque, también se pueden encontrar cuerpos enterrados. El "mudo" (Aphisit Hama) es uno de esos cuerpos, excepto que cuando no le encuentra, éste está vivo, cubierto en mugre y herido. Nobi lo lleva a casa, le cuida y le da el nombre de Thongchai.

Cuatro directores tailandeses narran, en este filme omnibus, cómo ven el futuro de su país. Así, vemos sendas piezas en las que el futuro se mezcla con la crítica a la situación política de Tailandia. Aditya Assarat filma a un joven soldado en una galería de arte, y transmite de forma sutil el estado de represión actual. Wisit Sasanatieng firma una fábula futurista poblada de hombres-gato. El artista visual Chulayarnnon Siriphol llena la pantalla de colores en una distopía animada. Y el maestro Apichatpong Weerasethakul filma con sosiego a un hombre que habla de máquinas del sueño en una plaza presidida por un monumento patrio.

Cuatro directores tailandeses narran, en este filme omnibus, cómo ven el futuro de su país. Así, vemos sendas piezas en las que el futuro se mezcla con la crítica a la situación política de Tailandia. Aditya Assarat filma a un joven soldado en una galería de arte, y transmite de forma sutil el estado de represión actual. Wisit Sasanatieng firma una fábula futurista poblada de hombres-gato. El artista visual Chulayarnnon Siriphol llena la pantalla de colores en una distopía animada. Y el maestro Apichatpong Weerasethakul filma con sosiego a un hombre que habla de máquinas del sueño en una plaza presidida por un monumento patrio.

A group of teenagers conducts a cremation ceremony for a man who is entering the afterlife while still being sought by the military for deserting. Shot on expired black-and-white film stock, the deteriorating image surface echoes life fading away in this tribute to the director's friend.

The voice of the people is often neglected, as is sound in film, which the audience doesn’t care about. Two sound recordists are working on the final mix of a short film. Will their sound be heard by someone?

The first railway line in Thailand was inaugurated in 1893 – a sign of progress and prosperity. Shot over eight years on every active line of the country’s railway system, this wondrous documentary offers an unprecedented immersion into the country’s past and present.

Laila leaves Bangkok, besieged by law enforcement due to political and social unrest, and embarks on a road trip to the town of Pattani, in the far south of Thailand, along with her brother Sugood and Toi, a friend of his, to visit Sainab, the brothers' aunt, whom they barely know.

Laila leaves Bangkok, besieged by law enforcement due to political and social unrest, and embarks on a road trip to the town of Pattani, in the far south of Thailand, along with her brother Sugood and Toi, a friend of his, to visit Sainab, the brothers' aunt, whom they barely know.

A drama depicting life in different paths. As two men delve deep down in search for what could heal their pains, through the path of imagination, they see themselves in each other.

A drama depicting life in different paths. As two men delve deep down in search for what could heal their pains, through the path of imagination, they see themselves in each other.

A Thai documentary about 'Van VDO' the VHS shop in 1990s. The shop established the independent cinema scene for Thai audience by selling VHS of American, European, and Asian indie films. However, all of them are pirate and illegal.

Two different boys, from different backgrounds and ways of life, seek answers for themselves in religion.

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.

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.

Mary está en su último año de colegio. Su graduación a sólo meses, se enfrenta a cambios repentinos en su vida, sus relaciones amorosas y de amistad. Mientras, le ocurren eventos extraños, al parecer al azar y sin razón. Ella lucha por encontrar el sentido de la vida que se vuelve fuera de control. Este mundo de fantasía de una adolescente asiática se basa en 410 tweets reales de una chica anónima. (FILMAFFINITY)

The film follows four high school boys driven by very different reasons, end up praying before the Luang Poo at the spirit house near their school, promising to give the idol a Thai dance if their wishes come true. The boys enlist Nut a professional dancer to teach them some moves.

A hitman named Tul is shot in the head during an assignment. When he wakes up from a two month coma Tul discovers that he literally sees everything upside down.

Four short tales set in contemporary Hong Kong.

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.

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.

An urban husband and wife travel to the jungle and learn just how precious their relationship is.

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

A joyful shot recorded by Weerasethakul himself and two young men who become acquainted by filming each other in the back of a moving pickup truck. Though seemingly playful, the short film is a subtle portrait of migrant workers in the north of Thailand.

A young man born with an extra arm longs to find love, so he journeys to a metropolitan hospital where he hopes to have his extra appendage amputated.

A film crew go in search of Nok Phii - a rare bird which feeds on the blood of other creatures.

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.

Ploy es un drama psicológico de alto contenido erótico en el que tres extraños se encierran en una habitación de hotel. Comienza con una sutil sospecha convertida en celos con la aparición de una joven mujer que provoca devastadoras consecuencias en el matrimonio. Seleccionada en la Quincena de Realizadores de Cannes.