Discoveries from Thailand World Cinema

The boys are victims of a sinister game where the girls pretend to go steady, then dumps them.

A teenage boy trying to help his poverty-stricken family falls in with drug smugglers and ends up in prison where he forms an unlikely bond with a reformed gangster who protects him and helps turn his life around. Based on a true story of family, faith and redemption.

Miguel de Cavier, a Thai-Spanish woman disguised as a man, works as a matador to pay the debts of her father, Julio, an ex-matador who is now disabled after a failed stunt. One day, Saranjit, the mother who had left her since early childhood, returns to Madrid in hope of reuniting with her daughter once again.

A coming of age documentary where the young person's teenage years has been characterized by domestic violence and adult responsibilities.

two young are trying to sleep, one to continue his dreams as being someone else, another just to witness the fear and despair. They are fighting against the forever-noon sun that blazes and invades their room among the city of Bangkok, the dust, the death, and the skyscrapers

Four boys are born with strange features, one has very big ears, one has a tail, one has very big hands, one has a big nose. Becoming friends, they spend most of their time playing and sleeping. Becoming adults, their fathers banish them from the village as they are doing nothing to help the community. Just as they leave, a local mafia gang threatens the villagers to get help to cultivate opium and to provide food for their members. Meanwhile one lady wants to marry one of the boys but wishes that he can remove his tail. He refuses. At night time, while he is sleeping, she cuts his tail. He flees away but looses a lot of blood. A crazy scientific professor finds and decides to save him by using technology. He then gathers his three other friends to free the villagers from the mafia gang. A sci-fi take on a classic Thai fairy tale.

A short video made for the Rubin Museum of Art.

At the end of life, an old female moneylender faces a financial crisis. She still chose to do for her own desires, ignoring the warnings from the last remaining family member.

A story of two young sisters who separated from childhood. They reunited and traveled to their former home together.

Tam dies in an accident and his soul is in limbo for 9 days before he'll be reborn. He watches his wife mourn and things he didn't knew when he was alive are revealed to him, so he decides to take some matters in his own hands.

Aniruth is married and has two children, but he is a womanizer. Centers on the rivalry between a legitimate wife and her husband's mistresses, set against a backdrop of rising middle-class prosperity and social ambition.

Cambodian migrant Jit travels to Phimai, Thailand, seeking to explore his newfound power to perceive beyond the strictures of time. As he wanders the temple town with Pim and Tat, a young couple drifting apart, the boundaries between myth, history and reality begin to blur.

"Just Want to hear your voice one more time..." A Quiet man reminisces about a cheerful woman he had to part ways with, missing her voice as it begins to fade from his memory

The conclusion of the story in the first video. This part unfolds the misery of Tang Siew Chong’s grandchild. Wan won’t say anything about herself or where she is from; she is angry about what happened to Pong. The story from three days earlier is explained and Pong now knows that the grown-ups have forgiven all who did wrong. The rest of the children take to the streets and riot.

Two rookie soldiers are left at a garrison as other troops head to the city to deal with a protest. Now free, the soldiers smoke, play guitar and go fishing in the country, where they meet a girl.

The Phi Pop ghost is back!

Five interviews of five real people who walk on their own path. Produced as part of The Long Project, sponsored by Vespa.

Once full of dreams, a young couple now scrapes by without decent jobs after graduating from college. One day, after bringing home a ‘lucky tree,’ their lives seem to turn around.

Thai pop superstars 4EVE dazzle their fans with a sold-out performance featuring big hits, electrifying choreography and a long list of special guests.

Director Sorayos Prapapan is invited to present his penultimate short film at the Winterthur Festival. He runs into an Afghan director friend, who has become a political refugee in Switzerland. Over subtle still shots of the Swiss landscape, his voice resonates and transports us between humor and the reality of political facts in an exciting and rich cinematic experience.

A documentary that chronicles the declin of DVDs focuses on Lido DVD, one of the few remaining stores still selling DVDs amidst changing technology.

The first fiction feature by Santi Taepanich collages the experiences of four residents of Bangkok whose lives are lived at night. They include a world-weary call-boy played by Ananda Everingham. This non-linear tale explores the lives of those affected by urban living, and set as a jet descends for landing and flocks of birds begin their migratory flight. The characters include a shady night-market merchant, a rent boy, and the latter’s pregnant girlfriend.

A Thai animated short film.

Lynn, a young librarian in a dystopian world, has a life that is dictated by the nation’s ideology. After the disappearance of her close friend, she encounters Jade, a roguish young man who will change her dreams forever.

Grandpa Boonmee is a former retired soldier often drinks liquor, hot-tempered and quarrels with Grandmother Rabieb, who is his wife.

Two filmmakers have to make a short film for a non-smoking campaign again, but they have run out of ideas.

Modern-day of young people who love each other loosely, in a cheerful atmosphere in a drinking circle where everyone is laughing and having fun.

A joy addict is struggling with anxiety while trying to send her imaginary friend home.

Winged creature.

Futuristic action movie.

A gifted but struggling singer decides to restart his life with the woman of his dream. He works to his limit but ultimately struggles to make money, culminating in him accidentally killing a pharmacist and going on the run to Ratchaburi.

The beginning of a transnational hunt when a gang of thieves rob a diamond in Hong Kong, but "David" disagrees with the action. hurt But the police arrested him as a co-incriminator. and was also targeted by a gang of thieves But the diamond shop's daughter saw the incident. So David was acquitted of the charges. The diamond heist group known as ASIAN KING robbed in Asian countries. to buy weapons of war And the final goal is to show the Siam Ruby diamond show in Thailand. Must mobilize to subdue good skills in the name of the 6 lands bad tigers to prevent and suppress the ASIAN KING gang to the end. Will the mission of the 6 lands bad tigers be successful?

This video art experiment and survey on human's visual and sound perception which have an influence on the way of life, national integration, and people's belief in fact. The video changes the way of human's usual perception by using a Thai ancient tale read by a calm voice, along with the annoying visual and sound.

A thrillingly lo-fi salute to the old-school, hand-crafted special effects that were once a mainstay of pre-CGI science-fiction films.

This short film captures the vibrant moments, places, and emotions experienced and recorded over 24 hours in Bangkok, as seen through the eyes of talented Italian directors, producers, and actors who were invited to visit Thailand’s capital. Each of them documented unexpected experiences of the city at different times of the day and night. The result is an honest and unpredictable visual diary that reveals surprising perspectives of Bangkok.

After being attacked by a rapist and getting stabbed before killing her attacker, a young woman is accused of being a ghost.

Jeff is an inventor who created his own robot, and then asked his assistant to help test the robot’s capabilities.

The second part of a triptych devoted to the ecological and social disasters caused by government decisions to massively develop the tourism industry.

In the capital of Thailand, the music-underground is exploding right now. That is what two German film makers found out during a two-month stay in Bangkok in 2003. The film portrays bands (Beargarden, Apartment Khun Ba, Som etc.) and labels (Smallroom, Bama, Panda, Hualampong Riddim) from the indie-scene, visits festivals and shows (Pattaya, NoisePop) and meets media (Fat Radio, Channel V), who support the Bangkok music scene. In interviews the highly creative protagonists of the local scene express their outlook on music, their conditions and what their work is about in their own words. The intention of making this film is to show to Western people what is going on in Thailand on the cultural side.

There's a legend in Thailand about an American soldier's exploration of an underwater world called the "Peal of Naga". Though disappeared, it is said to be full of treasures, including immortality and the power to any empire. Camera, the queen of darkness, wants this power to control the entire world but isn't the only one.

In Myanmar’s first and only country-wide environmental movement, Indigenous women activists and punk rock pastors defend a sacred river from a Chinese-built megadam through protest, prayer, and Karaoke music videos.

Thai horror film.

Happy Berry is the name of a Bangkok boutique run by a group of trendy Thai youths, and is the nerve centre of this fly-on-the-wall documentary (the second in a trilogy entitled "Life and Love"). The camera catches the subjects indulging in all the (post) modern lifestyle trends: drugs, kinky sex, hip-hop, fashion, exhibitionism, narcissism. They are uninhibited, the kind of youth who break down barriers in a supposedly traditional and religious society, but perhaps that's just on the surface. Behind the upbeat tone is a probing examination of values and attitudes in modern youth relationships. Happiness may be deceptive but there's certainly a lot of fun in the Happy Berry.

The story of a young woman going through a turbulent time in her life, both in her career and love life.

Eight thieves went in a jewelry store to steal diamonds and they killed innocent people in the store because they didn't want them to give the evidence to the police. One cop named Rik was chasing after them but he failed. A year later, a day before Rik's marriage to his girlfriend named Fah, there was another heist but this time Rik's girlfriend- Fah was at the store at wrong time. She was held as a hostage with other hostages from the store but some hostages were killed for no reason but this showed obviously that two cops- Rik and Tanin were getting too close to them and failed to follow their requests. Now those two cops wanted to catch them because they had enough of unreasonable killings and also to save Fah.

The story about the BELIEF of the people in the village……has led them to a trap set by hypocrites who disguised themselves under the shade of Buddhism…in making a living by using the religious FAITH as their means to achieve an end.

A series of murders at a hotel (plus some missing money) has the police investigating the hotel staff. However, someone has actually been possessed by a ghost. After thinking they've driven out the evil spirit, a family takes possession of the property and move in, but the spirit returns.