Discoveries from Thailand World Cinema

Kaopun a boy whose fear is an essential part of his life, but in fact, the reason why he is such a fearful person. because of what he called "miedo"

In the spring, after the death of my grandma, keeps me thinking about death in the 18th year of my life, with other thoughts and faith in death from other human beings who believe in life.

What will happen if the world of 12th-grade students who prepare for University admission is changed to the way they never expected? This is the director's first experimental short film.

The young man, living far from his birthplace, cannot remember his entire 19 years of growing up for reasons unknown. The only thing he remembers clearly is his lonely childhood in the house where he grew up and the photographs with his family at the zoo. The only evidence of his memories is the remnants of the house's walls and the scars on his body that have not faded, which are connected to his past.

Liw, a lonely single woman who was told by a fortune teller that she would be unlucky in love, decides to try a dating app. This leads her to meet many men as she searches for someone to be by her side.​

The youngest brother returned to his hometown for the first time in the past years to attend his mother's funeral. The reunion with his root includes the clash with his older brother.

A sensorial, left-field take on Thai political history that moves between a subdued past etched in the landscape of Khao Kho mountain, once a stronghold of communist insurgents, and a dynamic near-present marked by Bangkok’s 2021 anti-government protests.

A boy on his journey to find love through Thailand's traditional food.

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.

A supernatural ghost Thai film following the romance of a young couple

A group of high school students make a movie amidst the situation of COVID-19. The plot is unconventional and seemingly impossible, making this movie more challenging than ever.

The story of two communities in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, both fighting for the right to manage their forest. The first community, in the village of Semanki, are fighting against the constraints imposed by the establishment of a national park. The second, in Labbo, are making the most of their 'extraordinary opportunity' to set up one of Indonesia's first 'village forests', and exercise that promises to make not just their livelihoods, but also the future of their forest much more secure.

The installation is divided over two spaces. The first comprises an audio artwork. It is a light space in which the visitors can change the sounds of the countryside and jungle of Thailand with buttons. While the first space evokes a general picture of Thailand, the second space is dark and focuses on the image, looking at a specific recent event. Here too, the visitor can intervene using hundreds of illuminated buttons, but now he changes the picture. The pictures are borrowed from clandestine recordings of the so-called Takbai incident. A dramatic incident from the recent history of Thailand in which many demonstrators in the rebellious south died when they were transported piled up in military trucks. The event took place on 25 October 2004, but the images are still subject to censorship.

The thrilling mission of the film delivery.

Akachai, a young doctor who lives happily with his wife and daughter. Then one day, everything began to change. Because he tried to forget about the past and left it. It was haunted by the vengeful and vindictive spirit. He didn’t know the cause but he realized that he could stop the bad stories and help children and his wife out of the malice this time.

When Jack loses his beloved mother even his knees were weak because it meant the loss of everything in life. Jack believed that his mother's spirit was still circling nearby. Jack then thought of reconnecting with his mother by using 6 ways to see ghosts like those seen in ghost movies and ghost shows, which were easy to do, but not easy to quit. ?When calling them Will they come? If it were you.... would you be brave enough? Will you be strong enough? to meet them again

This silent film depicts two letters written in 2006 following a military coup in Thailand that ousted then prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The first was written by a group of environmental activists in support of democracy and social justice, and the second by a taxi driver, Nuamthong Praiwan, who slammed his taxi into a military tank in protest of the coup.

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.

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.

Fifteen years into the future, amidst fear of another great flood in the capital, two brothers must coincide on their reasoning for moving back into their childhood home in the north

Korakrit Arunanondchai’s new piece, Songs for Dying, composed of tropes and ideas from his “living archive,” combines the personal experience of accepting death and the perception of history with religious, technological, and political narratives. Footage of his grandfather’s funeral is followed by archival records of the popular uprising on South Korean Jeju Island, current student protests in Thailand, and references to pop culture. Using the metaphor of the ghost, central to this piece, the artist questions the linear perception of time and seeks to show how the past pulsates in the present. In his worldview, nature, people, and spirits are intertwined into a homogenous whole, forming a living and diverse reality.

A beautiful woman picks up her fiancé at a gentleman's club where the members play pool. She is so attractive that other men begin to compete for her attention. One, a lieutenant who she won't give the time of day, finds out a little more about her than he bargained for.

Arnont Nongyao’s ‘Mekong travelogue’ combines fragments of personal history with a strange sonic world to tell the story of losing oneself to ‘unconscious colonisation’.

In the modern Thai society, civilization, high technology, and educated people rule the city of Bangkok. However, in the little corner of the city still represents Thai traditional belief, which its spiritual and magical essence has draw hundreds of people to visite. Those people indicates the old beliefs that still persist widely in the civilized society. The strong belief has been deeply-rooted in the Thai culture for a long period of time and being passed on from one generation to another

A married, homophobic accountant unknowingly intercepts a bribe intended for his boss, a corrupt real-estate developer. When thugs try to take back the money, they unknowingly chase him into a gay sauna. It's there for the first time that he knowingly confronts gay people. Fearing for his life, the accountant is forced to accept help from the people he would normally avoid and look down upon. At the sauna, he discovers new lessons about life, acceptance, HIV/AIDS, and his relationships with his own family.

A family renovates an old mansion into a hotel where a brutal murder-suicide has taken place. However, the previous owners may not be entirely dead. In 3-D!

Mai, a young Thai reporter interviews Sri, the sister of a missing activist. She is confronted with visions of internalised fear and paranoia.

The story of two lovers That was linked to meet But when the feeling is too good, the connection Causing the love status to change.

Baby Arabia follows one of the oldest Thai-Muslim bands specializing in the subcultural genre of Arab-Malay music - the bouncy ethnic cross-pollination of Arabian melodies, Malay throbs, Thai Luke-thoong kicks, and a bit of Latin tempo. We meet Geh, founder of the band who taught himself to play the accordion 35 year ago. Geh is joined by Umar, a former Koran teacher and now a guitarist with a knack for Egyptian numbers. Fronting their band is Jamilah, a husky-voiced, humble diva who teaches the Koran during the day and sings Arabic songs at night while wondering if the world of melody can be both faith-bound and joyously secular.

A mother and son leave Myanmar in hopes for a better life in Thailand.

Events that seem unrelated spread like cancer cells, where an elementary school, a crocodile pond, cha-cha music and the afterlife become entangled.

A contemplative Thai film about a lonely girl in an almost empty restaurant.

The film maker is a photographer and wonders how memories are passed on through photos in a village in Thailand. And how they are given back.

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.

A doctor and a nurse working in a rural hospital take a vow to be faithful over two small dolls. They each wear a doll as a necklace. However he is unable to remain faithful and bad things begin to happen.

150 underprivileged and orphaned students in the remote jungle of Thailand attending the country's first democratic school prepare a special celebration to honor their remarkable adoptive mother on Mother's Day.

Taking on a decidedly sombre tone, Thai artist Korakrit Arunanondchai tackles the difficult subject of death in this latest iteration of his multifarious series. As drones take on the role of spirits, animism and reincarnation establish a universe in which spirits and living species share the same stream of existence. A human-sized rat journeys through the rubble of global capitalism and asks himself: “Will you find beauty in this sea of data?”

A movie star has an argument on a film set which leads to his untimely death. His ghost later comes back to seek its revenge...

Presented at Documenta 14 in Athens.

The disciple of a Chinese master attempts to use what he learned defeat an evil Chinese master after he plots to use his girlfriend's virginal blood to resurrect a demon. With a low budget not affording much in the way of special effects or art direction (it takes place almost entirely outdoors), a cast of no-name actors and a soundtrack filled with stolen popular music from other countries, this 'B' flick is considered low grade in its country of origin.

Stars are beautiful in the sky... but when they fall to the ground they have the ability to transform people into vampires.

This is a sequel to จระเข้ศรีวันทอง ("Miss Crocodile Gold").

Obscure ghost movie from Thailand. Not much information is known about this one.

A Krasue (aka Filth Eating Spirit, aka flying head with guts dangling from it) wreaks havoc.

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...