Discoveries from Thailand World Cinema

Aom longs to return to acting, but the weight of motherhood keeps her tethered. Torn between desire and expectation, she must decide whose story she will live.

Dao came to live with her grandfather after her father went bankrupt, but her cousins who lived in the same house did not particularly like her, so she left for Bangkok, hopefully to find some work there. In Bangkok, she met a taxi driver whom she had helped once, they get along very well, he even found her a job in a women clothes designing store. When he asked her to marry him, she didn’t refuse but want him to wait until he has saved enough money to start a family. One day she was taken to a birthday party of a young millionaire, at the party she soon learned that her taxi driver actually is that young millionaire.

Based on a true story, this award-winning Mongolian-Thai drama tells the tale of a woman determined to help women escape her husband's human trafficking ring.

Dome, a party-loving guy, has a clingy and jealous wife, Bungaon. After a heated argument, Dome drunkenly dares her to possess him. Moments later, Bungaon dies in an accident and her spirit returns to take over Dome's body, leading to a hilarious yet spooky adventure as he and his friends try to handle her ghostly presence.

When a young man began to feel uncertain about living, he started planning to end his life, hoping it would be simple and clean. However, the outcome wasn’t as easy as he had imagined when suddenly, he began to feel hesitant.

An ordinary man who can hear other people's heartbeat but his own heartbeat could not be heard, even using stethoscope until one day he met a girl who works together with him in a department store.

Nat and a few of his childhood friends live normal lives until two Angels of Death mistake and escort their souls instead of others to Hell. There, they learn about their upcoming death.

A gay couple faces personal challenges and society's expectations when their adopted son starts grade school and notices his family's unique dynamic.

A diary of the time Apichatpong Weerasethakul visited a newlywed couple near the Mekong River.

A special project featuring Max and Tul reflecting on their journey of six year together.

A short film by Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit.

Thip turns sixteen this year. She is a daughter of wealthy family and in high society. She is raised by strict and conservative rule. She meets high school football player. One day they have sex and Thip's pregnant. They decide to elope, after that her life turns upside down.

One man travels to an unfamiliar country with hopes of becoming a professional fighter. Upon his arrival he runs into a series of unfortunate events which leave him broke and no place to stay. He stumbles upon a rugged Muay Thai boxing camp that allows him to train and fight. Through his fights in and outside of the ring his talent and skill will get him his biggest fight yet, against the world champion, leaving only one man a winner in the ring. Inspired by true events.

A love story of two high school teens, Chai who is beach volleyball player and Aek who is star player of his football team. Competition in sport and in love which both have to win. Love is a great thing which will be impressed on their hearts.

Dokbua, a young lady, is hurt by Chala's car. She is a poor girl coming from Chiang Mai to Bangkok in order to work but she was told a falsehood regarding the job nature. As she has nowhere to go, she can finally stay as a maid as Chala gets pity on her harsh life. Chala's Hi-So family includes various members. Pen is a middle aged woman. She is the new wife of Chon, who is paralyzed. Chita is Chon's sister. She never got married. Chon has three children, Chala, Chet and Lek. There is always a bad and oppressive ambiance in the family. Chala only spends money but does not earn anything. In fact Chala gives the money to a poor family. Chet and Pen are lovers. All men in the house fight over Dokbua. Pen wants to use Dokbua to take care about her paralyzed husband ardors so that she can have more free time with Chet. Dokbua played the stupid girl but she is in fact very intelligent. Only Chala knows Dokbua has entered the house with a specific idea. What is her goal and her hidden secret?

A young archaeologist uncovers a coffin of an ancient princess who was his lover in their past life. The princess is out to avenge her death from her younger sister who, in this life, is the lover of the archaeologist.

Two teenagers, Fai and New, get to know with the application "Bee Talk" and discovered many commonalities. Will they dare to push this story into reality?

Tip’s father has a mental problem, but he has been cured by Dr.Chow. Eak is married to Tip, but he still flirts around, so Tip becomes jealous and beats him unconscious. Eak has a strange feeling when he wakes up. Dr.Chow comes to check him out and they set up a plan to fool Tip. Eak still goes out and flirts even more than before. Tip has an idea to get him back by dressing up very sexy on her birthday to surprise everyone and gets Eak’s attraction.

With no Marijuana with Muaythai legend Buakaw Banchamek, life in the gym takes it course. A glimpse of Muaythai Training Camp in Bangkok.

The story is about a guy who can predict a person’s future by patterns of tea leaves. Our fortune teller is in love with his best friend, but unfortunately, he’s stuck as a love advisor for said friend.

Niwat is an ordinary person who has to deal with extraordinary events. When someone who looks just like him hurts and tries to kill in order to take his place and take over everything, his friends, family and the person he loves the most is May Sommai, the culprit policeman, so he fights to regain the life he used to be. Along with investigating the secret of the mysterious man b-7 and how did it come about?

A beautiful nurse started a new job in an old hospital. She is well-liked by her colleagues because of her graceful personality and sharp mind. The hospital janitor for the hospital falls for the nurse at first sight. The first rose he gives to the nurse leads to a surprising kind of true love.

Liu Talu Fah AKA: Young Angel Dir: Panna Rittikrai THAILAND - 1992

Phai returns home from studying abroad but finds his house empty. His neighbour Ton, tells him his parents has moved to get away from loan sharks. The next day the loan sharks capture Phai and Ton comes to the rescue but gets shot. Both of them manage to escape and Phai decides to nurse Ton. While recovering, suddenly Ton's ex-lover, Mike, returns and want them to get back together again and has a plan to get rid of Phai.

A mysterious story set in a run-down house where an eccentric elderly lady lives alone. One day, a little girl steps inside the house and never comes back. The girl seems to be locked inside the house for 8 days. No one knows what is going on in the house except for a young doctor who witnesses everything.

a camera makes you forget you are there.

Panna Rittikrai stars and action directs this brilliant Thai action stunt fest.

Produced for the Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai, (2023), « Solarium » was inspired by a 1981 horror film, « The Sunken-Eyed Ghost », by Thai director Komarachun. This installation places the public in the mindset of the protagonist, a ghost seeking his previously torn-out eyes. Without any bearings, in the darkness, the ghost’s perceptions are depicted via a homage to the first experimental films : the experiments with light in the darkroom conducted by Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp and Fernand Léger.

A trip to post-war Cambodia as it turns itself into a business opportunity and playground raises the question of who gets to write history.

A stylish, urban woman ends up castaway on a deserted island, where she meets a rugged hermit. Solitude and detachment soon draw them together.

From the series to cinematic version, a story of friendship and promises between two close friends. Nut and Phop are high school friends, but their friendship breaks from unknown reason. One day, they both meet once again. May be this time they will not separate.

In the mid-18th century, Thailand's King Textron was defending his Ayuthaya Kingdom as he fought against the Myanmar invasion. At the same time, his wife Queen Taya was having a secret affair with the swordsman Chai, who may actually be a Myanmar traitor intending on toppling the Ayuthayans from within the palace. Filled with dazzling swordplay action and epic battle scenes, THE LORD OF AYUTHAYA is a stirring account of one of Thailand's most famous battle in history

Four teenage schoolgirls - Bee, Tum, Nui and Tim - have been friends for a long time, and have sworn to be true to one another forever. Their relationship is as colorful and lively as they are, and they feel nothing can tear them apart. This proves to be not so permanent when one day, Tum meets a teenage boy called Daeng. As Tum's puppy love develops into something more serious and she and Daeng spend more and more time with each other, the relationship with her three friends simultaneously takes a turn for the worse. They resent her and feel she's neglecting them. Meanwhile, despite family crisis, Tim becomes the only person among them who could see that something has to be done to get everyone back on track. Only love, devotion and forgiveness could, together, be the solution for them.

Orachun, a millionaire, is a patient who falls in love with a nurse named Karakade. However, his love isn't easily reciprocated as Karakade follows the path of reality and not destiny.

Thai horror film.

Fak, a young man once beloved by the villagers, lives with Somsong, a mentally unstable woman who became his father’s new wife. After his father’s death, Fak is left to care for Somsong, who is despised by the community. Over time, rumors spread that the two share an illicit relationship, causing Fak’s life to fall into ruin—solely due to the judgment passed by the villagers.

Fai and Theung are good buddies. They want to get some money for gamble and foolishly decide to go to a Chinese graveyard to steal money from a corpse. Careless Theung bangs his head on a coffin and starts bleeding. His dripping blood revives an infamous headless corpse and causing it to awaken from its sleep. The headless corpse starts madly rampaging around the village until an old exorcist brings it under control by keeping its head and body in separate secure places....that is until Mek, a young guy, accidentally revives the headless corpse once again. Now, the headless dead man is alive and ready to hunt.

Thai horror film.

Tum meets and falls for Kaeng. Tum is smitten but Kaeng seems to have moved on to other conquests.

3 inmates at a women prison camp are planning a daring escape.

Raenu is back to win Panya's heart. Her competitor is growing prettier and more interesting to Panya her first love. With the help of her new friends, what will happen to this cute romantic innocent love.

Among the students that have the blood of the overwhelming prank Who knows that the beginning of the challenge of seniors who want to measure the courage of the juniors that day. Will bring the loss and horror. The next day, Joe tiny, Ood, Oi, June, powder, and guitar to apply to the Forbidden Forest, according to the challenge of the seniors. But on the day he arrived, Joe canceled the trip because his mother didn't allow it. And there are seniors who are one of the main persons traveling together All eight lives traveled by train to meet a skilled hunter and assistant named Sam at the train station. Before heading to the forest, all ten people took a group photo together on the railway tracks. In this photo shoot, everyone will choose their own standing position.

If you think "Bangkok" is a great city, I beg you to think twice - Prepare yourself to "Bangkok Dark Tales" the film that made from 3 situations 3 horror stories and 3 creepy places in Bangkok that you will never forget.

Tod is a war veteran who is always haunted by the images of the battle field. Tada brings him home after he has been treated in the hospital for a while. Tada’s boss takes her along on a business deal, and she sees her boss’s men being arrested for transporting heroin. Her boss and his men are coming to make her shut up, because she has seen and knows too much, but Tod sees the images of the enemy coming to attack him and Tada, so he kills them all.

While at work, Nutty suddenly starts seeing a ghost. He is convinced his friend Sun is being haunted. In the meanwhile, Sun struggles to come up with a decent script idea, and Nutty's continually paranoid behavior is not helping.

“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.

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.

Pongsatorn is a teacher in Thailand working on his thesis for his Master's degree. His chosen subject his the life and works of a French Catholic priest who lived in Thailand in the early part of the 20th century. His professor rejects his early drafts to his anger before realising the professor has pushed him to fully understand his chosen topic.

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.

Khian, Pim and Karn, young rebellious students, work together to make a protest to uncover the corruption in their school by folding hundreds of paper cranes. But as they tried to unfold the truth, the trio are threatened by the shadowy powers.

This unusual Thai slice-of-life film chronicles the work of Puya (Piya Trakulrat), a schoolteacher working in a rural area of the country.

The story of a dedicated teacher who devoted herself not only to teach her student in various subjects, but also preach everyone to abide to her strict rules to keep everything in perfect order.

Ying Narintorn, a special forces officer manages to capture a terrorist. However, the latter will escape him quickly. At the same time, a very powerful laser system recently developed is being tested in the building, but the experiment will turn to disaster, causing a chemical reaction on a snake. Transformed into a real killing machine, the overpowering reptile now haunts the corridors of the complex ...