Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Directing
Born July 16, 1970 in Bangkok, Thailand
Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the prestigious 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or prize; Tropical Malady, which won a jury prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival; Blissfully Yours, which won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival; and Syndromes and a Century, which premiered at the 63rd Venice Film Festival and was the first Thai film to be entered in competition there. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, Weerasethakul has directed several features and dozens of short films. Themes reflected in his films (frequently discussed in interviews) include dreams, nature, sexuality (including his own homosexuality), and Western perceptions of Thailand and Asia, and his films display a preference for unconventional narrative structures (like placing titles/credits at the middle of a film) and for working with non-actors.
Filmography
9 Temples to Heaven
A Flower of Forgetfulness
Phantoms
Le bureau qui avait peur
Self
January Stories
The Cowboy
Solarium
Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)
On Blue
Durmiente
For Bruce
A Conversation with the Sun (Installation)
Uncertain Path
Memoria
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
Night Colonies
Waterfall
Flowers & Banana Wind
2020
Cinetracts '20
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Untitled
2019
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Blue
Fiction
Ten Years Thailand
A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Self
Wiara
Self
Memoria, Boy at Sea
async - first light
Railway Sleepers
2017
Ablaze
Art Through Our Eyes
Cinema Futures
Self
The Parrot
Invisibility
Fever Room
Vapour
Cemetery of Splendor
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
Self
Rolling
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Self
Short Plays
Fireworks (Archives)
Footprints
Father
Fireworks Sketch
Past Present
Self
Concrete Clouds
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
One Water
Dilbar
Blue Propeller
Cactus River
Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer
Self
Sakda (Rousseau)
Mekong Hotel
Self
Ashes
20 Little Films
Quattro Hong Kong 2
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
Monsoon
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Reincarnate
Empire
Phantoms of Nabua
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
An Evening Shoot
Haiku
Behind the Blur
I'm Still Breathing
Primitive
Stories on Human Rights
Mobile Men
Diseases and a Hundred Year Period
Vampire
The Palace (Pipittan Tee Taipei)
Emerald
The State of the World
Luminous People
Teem
The Anthem
Syndromes and a Century
Ghost of Asia
Worldly Desires
Tropical Malady
The Adventure of Iron Pussy
Nokia Short
Blissfully Yours
Mysterious Object at Noon
Thirdworld
Circulation
Runner
Kulturzeit
self
Bullet