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.

Soldados com uma misteriosa doença do sono são transferidos para um hospital provisório instalado em uma antiga escola abandonada. Jenjira torna-se voluntária para tratar de Itt, um belo soldado que ninguém vem visitar. No hospital, ela faz amizade com a jovem médium Keng que utiliza os seus poderes para ajudar os parentes a se comunicarem com os homens adormecidos. Um dia, Jenjira encontra o diário de Itt preenchido de palavras e desenhos estranhos. Talvez haja uma conexão entre a síndrome enigmática dos soldados e o mítico local em que o hospital se encontra. A magia, a cura, o romance e os sonhos misturam-se no frágil caminho de Jenjira em direção ao conhecimento profundo de si própria e do mundo à sua volta.

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.

Shifting between fact and fiction in a hotel situated along the Mekong River, a filmmaker rehearses a movie expressing the bonds between a vampire-like mother and daughter.

Sofrendo de insuficiência renal, Tio Boonmee resolveu passar os últimos dias de sua vida recolhido em uma casa perto da floresta e ao lado de entes queridos. Durante um jantar com a família, o espírito de sua esposa falecida aparece para ajudá-lo em sua jornada final. A eles se junta Boonsong, filho de Boonmee que retorna após muito tempo metamorfoseado em outra forma de existência. Juntos, eles percorrerão o interior de uma caverna misteriosa, onde Boonmee nasceu em sua primeira 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.

Roong anseia pelo dia em que possa estar com Min, o seu amante birmanês, um imigrante ilegal. Ela paga a Orn, uma mulher mais velha para cuidar de Min, enquanto ela procura um lugar para eles ficarem. Uma tarde, Min leva Roong a um piquenique na selva, onde se sentem seguros para expressar o seu amor. Mas enquanto isso, Orn também foi para a selva, com Tommy, colega de trabalho do marido...

Rainbow has just moved to an international school in Phuket, in Southern Thailand. She soon becomes the center of attention, since so many of her new friends are curious to know about the recent death of a student at her old school in the North. She blames it on a mysterious phone number 999-9999 a number reputed to grant whoever calls it, one wish.

Jan is a boy growing up in 1930s Siam in a wealthy, dysfunctional family where sex has a huge impact on everyone's lives. Jan is viewed by his father as cursed, since his mother died giving birth to him.

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.