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A substitute teacher struggles to teach a young group of music students to play the songs of his father. This is among nine short films commissioned by Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej for the 2012 Terdglao Project.

Point of view from Balcony, Some people are doing something.

The video promo for Red Cross's organ donation campaign. A 4 minute short film portrays the case when the officer informs about the patient's registration of organ donation and the family members never know about this before. this leads to many cases of unsuccessful organ donation because the members don't give the permission.

A couple of traffic rescue workers tell each other stories of unexplained things during their career.

n 2013, Chulayarnnon Siriphol was hired to produce an educational short film about osteoarthritis titled A Cock Kills A Child By Pecking On The Mouth Of An Earthen Jar. It was agreed verbally that Siriphol could submit this work to any open call competitions under his own name. However, after winning the Vichitmatra Award from the 17th Thai Short Film and Video Festival, he was accused of violating the film copyright and obliged to give the award certificate to the hired organization. After returning the award certificate, he later gave away 100 copies of the certificate to anyone for free, re-rendered the work multiple times deteriorating video, and distributed it as an edition of 100 artwork, selling each DVD for 100 Baht.

"Disappointment leads to love and allergies causing crush to love." Meet a new love that's bigger than ever in Good Loser 2.

The filmmaker collects memories of his youth. His brother often told him about being stung by a poisonous jellyfish. Here he retells the story.

A journey of a woman and a male driver on a mysterious night to the Dark River.

Bamboo is a sacred tree for Malaysian people who reside in Javi, Thailand. According to their traditions, people use this tree to make water holy. Out of belief in its magic power, they put pieces of bamboo in their mouth to make a smooth voice, or on other occasions, they try hard to persuade the spirits to be on their side and bless them.

This documentary tells a heartfelt love story of a suburban Grandpa Somboon towards Grandma Miad in their last period of married life. Their mutual love has lasted for over 45 years even though their marriage is pre-arranged by their parents. The film focuses on the time when Grandma Miad is disabled because of her acute kidney failure. But Grandpa Somboon is still staying by her side and always taking good care of her until her last day. Despite their pre-arranged marriage, they never have strife but fulfilled their family life by well performing their mutual duty as husband and wife, parents of their offsprings and grandparents of their grandchildren. They have both cherished their eternal love planted by them and can be sensed by heart without having to utter a single sweet word.

The middle shade of grey is neutral of light aperture in term of photography. It is said that 18 percent of middle shade of grey makes photos beautiful. It is like when we learn to accept our true feelings; we will find the beauty of life.

A documentary film that presents information about Wichai Kasripongsa and Chumphon Thummai, two employees of the Nakhon Pathom Electricity Authority, who were found hanged under mysterious circumstances at the entrance gate of a housing estate in Phra Pathom Subdistrict, Mueang District, Nakhon Pathom Province, on September 24, 1976. The two men had gone out to post signs protesting the return of Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn, who had been exiled following the October 14, 1973 uprising. Thanom’s return in 1976 sparked widespread public outrage, and Wichai and Chumphon were among those who opposed it. Shortly afterward, both were found hanged in public, their bodies displayed for passersby to see. However, no proper investigation was carried out to identify or prosecute those responsible. Their bodies were quickly buried without autopsy, leaving the case shrouded in mystery and injustice.

In a cold, dark dog shelter, a young beagle is waiting for the right one to take him home. Time passes by, the beagle is getting desperate. Until one day, when hope finally shine upon him. He has to do everything he can to leave the place!

An adaptation of Sri Burapha (Kulap Saipradit)'s 1937 influential Thai novel, Behind the Painting. Forget Me Not is an attempt to reread the novel and also reread Thai political history at the same time.

RapThai introduces how rap culture has taken root in and influenced contemporary Thai society. Focusing on the synergy between Thai culture and rap music tradition, this documentary homes in on the stories of 12 Thai rappers and presents a unique look at the different styles they express through their life experiences.

It talks about two best friends, Pim and Yo, who rent an apartment together. On Yo's birthday, she receives a present that awakens memories she can't seem to let go.

It tells the story of the troubled relationship of a daughter and her deaf-mute father.

Inspired by the life of multidisciplinary artist Korakrit Arunanondchai and that of national artist Chalermchai Kositpipat, the second part of Korakrit's ongoing film series "Together with history in a room filled with people with funny names" was shot at Chalermchai’s Wat Rongkhun in Chiang Rai. Korakrit plays both himself and his twin brother, Korapat. Premiered as part of the exhibition '2557 (Painting with history in a room filled with men with funny names 2)', Carlos ∕ Ishikawa gallery, London, 2014.

The film is shot inside a prayer hall of a Buddhist temple. In the background of its single tableau shot, we see an enormous gold-framed reproduction of an untitled painting by Jeff Koons that is displayed frontally on the left side of the screen. Beside it, toward the right side of the screen, there is a reproduction of a painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, which is encased in a matching gold frame equal in size to the one framing Koons's work. In the foreground, there are several rows of lively spectator-figures, children and neatly dressed older women - including Araya herself - all of whom are sitting with their backs to the camera on a fandango pink carpet facing the two reproductions. A figure stands next to the framed reproductions and faces the camera. He is a Buddhist monk who delivers a humorous, didactic sermon on the third Buddhist precept, the prohibition of sexual misconduct, using the images as visual aids.

One man had his own way of life, living by fishing on a bridge. He was the one who fished the most during each night, from the Sang-Hi bridge, a public bridge that became his jetty fishing.

The ideal world of perfect goodness is a spiritual refuge for people nowadays. Unsurprisingly, some sects, new religions and politic group are growing.

A five-minute short film about two friends who spend the night together after one loses his room key.

A short film about Tay, a ladyboy, and his daily life, traveling to and from school, and silently touching up his makeup in front of the mirror.

The Mental Traveller meditates on the passing of time, external behavior and sensory reality for five men on a psychiatric ward. The film was conceived from the director’s connections to his parents and companions as they went through states of sickness, impending death, dementia, grief and temporary insanity. At the same time, it echoes the turbulent years of political upheavals and repercussions in Thailand, resulting in a nation in a state of delirium, lunacy and trauma.

Pun's sister hires a tutor for him, but get's upset when the two of them start getting too close for her comfort.

The film Lucid Reminiscence was made for the Thai Film Archive and explored the good old days of the movie theatre through interviews with three people – critics Kittisak Suwanabhokin and Manotham Theamtheabrat and movie director Somkiet Vithuranich. Their faces are not shown during the film. Indeed the only visual stimulation is two abandoned standalone cinemas mostly used to store the paraphernalia of street vendors and children’s playgrounds.

Kla is in search for the origins of a necklace which was given to him by his mother before she passed away. On his journey, he helps Jenny who has been kidnapped by a group of underground gangsters. The odds are against him and he barely survives...

Bandhit Arneeya is a Thai writer and translator. He was charged under Act 112 (Thai Lèse-majesté) four times. He was released twice having been treated as a mental patient. Two charges are still pending in the courts. This story is narrated cross the boundary between fact and fiction, from his work and his personal story.

Y/OUR MUSIC immerses itself in the world of Thai music, from traditional music to labor songs and classical pop to urban indie music, spanning different locales and generations. As nine musicians each display their music, the rural or urban environments that influenced their sound are explored. The hands that play traditional instruments amid the red dust clouds, the labor songs being hummed in front of grains awaiting harvest, and the indie music born out of concrete basements create a melodious ecosystem. While they inhabit different musical worlds the musicians are connected by the same passion to bring their artistic aspirations to the fore and survive in the outskirts of the mainstream.

"It is said that if women fail to meet the examination, they will run away together." But what if it is a man?

The film is a series of interviews with 4 living figures talking about their works involving Nang Yai, the traditional Thai Shadow Play, an artform which is dying.

The flat, wide river holds on its surface a tour-boat of memories, as Som Supaparinya documents her Grandfather’s return via cruise to familiar territories in rural Thailand that were submerged after the Thai government installed a series of dams.

Gale breaks up with Guy because she has someone new. Guy later meets Blue, a girl he once had a crush in middle school and just got abandoned by her boyfriend, Tee. Guy and Blue heal each other's heartbreak, but when Guy wants to take the relationship seriously, Blue is not yet ready for new love.

After grandma died, “Poom” needed to come back to stay with his family, but it has already been a while since he had left them. The unfamiliar feeling for his own family made him stick with “Kong”, his only friend there. His mind is full of the past memories; it made him not being able to stay in the present. This road is leading to the end of a relationship...

Two boys meet daily at the bus stop, they never miss each other.

“Shadow and Act” navigates through the remains of Chaya Jitrakorn, once the most prominent photo studio in Thailand built in 1940 and was the only preferred studio of the dictator Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram. The film explores the studio’s 72-year archives and its owner’s personal photographs while representing the defunct studio like the corpse of the deceased Giant. The film experiments with the relationships between memory and space as well as the past and the future.

Kinari was raped and killed in the forest and her spirit is haunting the place where she died. She will have sex with any men who are in the area and then leave them dead.

A desperate and dangerous foreigner stalks the mean streets of the Thai capital in a quest to find his missing lover and avenge the ghosts of his past.

An exploration of the relationship between filmmaking and human labor through textured and rough film splices.

A woman discovers that she is pregnant and that the child she is carrying is the reincarnation of Satan. She must find a way to terminate the pregnancy before the due date, or else the world will end.

A short documentary for the 40th anniversary of the Thammasat University massacre, remembering the event from the point of view of the victims

A short documentary telling the stories of two families whose children perished in the Thammasat University massacre

A cartoon artist who always has allergy to flower pollen. She often think about nose surgery because she thinks that her nose is the cause. She saves money for the nose surgery but the problem was not her nose.

A combination of animation, performances and news footage, examining the period of Thai politics defined by the military coup of 2006 and 2014.