The untold state of mind dealing with an incurable disease. One is wondering if there's still a dream to achieve in life. One is running as if this free spirit of mine has never been taken away.
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The untold state of mind dealing with an incurable disease. One is wondering if there's still a dream to achieve in life. One is running as if this free spirit of mine has never been taken away.
This documentary explores the cinematic magic of Bangkok's last remaining stand-alone movie theater through the eyes of its long-serving staff.
Behind the scenes conversations and making of I Promised You the Moon, with cast and crew.
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.
Nathan Lim honors his Muay Thai coach Nattawat Jophromma (aka Ajarn Wat) with this portrait that serves as “sort of a prayer,” dutifully recounting Johpromma’s past and his relationship with violence.
From a personal vlog to a 3-year life documentary... with an ending yet to be written.
Thousands of ducks, one farmer, and an ultimate goal to produce chemical-free rice. Against all odds, a determined farmer in Thailand trained ducks to be ‘rice protectors.’ Together, they joined hands (and wings) in the pursuit of sustainable farming. Amusing, adorable, yet informative, viewers will fall in love watching man and ducks, teacher and students, work together to keep our food safe from harmful chemicals.
An experimental film revisiting the entangled histories of borders, ancient sites, nationhood, and politics—emerging from the Thai-Cambodian border conflict under the shadow of colonial cartography, modern nation-states, and Thai political tensions.
A documentary film tells the true story of the locals in southern of Thailand through the life of 4 families that live in different provinces, but hand and share their kindness to one another. The reality of their life is arranged into the story disclosing beautiful sides of the southern of Thailand and changing the point of view about the violence that's been happened in the area.
Four men travel to a place of their memory. Two of them used to date ten years ago. The story is told through an interviewer and interviewees. Past stories are unearthed and overlap with the present, leading to a new story that seems like something totally different from what it started from. When they start playing Truth or Dare, secrets are revealed, yet it is uncertain whether they are real or merely lies. Their secrets, told amidst an atmosphere filled with destruction, death, and hope, are sarcastic, ridiculous, nonsensical, obsessed, and severely painful.
It’s not non-human animals on display in Korakrit Arunanondchai’s new series — it’s nature itself. This is a nature show about the least natural thing of all: god. For the Darwinist, feelings are just an evolutionary training mechanism, a mere instinctual guide that has come to mean too much. If feelings are evolved, then they are also the voices of all who have come before us, an ancestral language far larger than any one being. There is a deep time to emotion, to our emotions towards other beings, human or otherwise. Natural Gods is a nature show beyond people. It looks at subjectivities that do not resemble our own, imagining an expansive consciousness bigger than individuals, or even entirely different from consciousness as we know it.The time after humans will leave society’s residue to be mined as if of a preternatural force for whomever or whatever comes after. It’s not cute creatures on view, it’s what seeps from spaces between symbols and language and rocks and bodies.
Documenting the discovery of a large stone chakra in Nakhon Pathom.
Since the death of her husband, Kok, Nia has inexplicably developed Alzheimer's disease. She had the opportunity to return to her old house, where she had lived with her husband for many years, to visit her closest friend Saw, whose house was next door. They spent a long time seated at the dining table in Saw's home, talking about their health and the life they have lived and lost.
A yaksha gets revenge on the devadas who insulted him with the help of his diamond finger. Told through traditional khon dancing.
My heartfelt sympathies go out to the political prisoners and victims who have suffered under the Thai state during the three periods of Thai political history.
Paying respect to Kwai Calm.
Kingdom of Chiang Mai has been annexed into the centralized country of Thailand in 1894, Chao Doungduen - the princess, now without a kingdom, has staunchly held onto her royal status through her own means. Now, at 89 years old, She diagnosed with Alzheimerʼs disease, her symptoms cause her to live further in the past. She live in a bubble without much interaction from the outside world, while her family move out to live in a big city. Her niece, this documentary filmmaker visit her from time to time. It become somewhat surreal experience like walking into living museum. With her memories fading, will her belief in her superior ʻbloodlineʼ and ʻtitleʼ bring Chao Doungduen any solace in her final years?
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.
Isan, the largest and most impoverished region of Thailand, has long been a thorn in the kingdom’s flesh with its legacy of pro-democratic movements. Isan Odyssey takes viewers on an enlightening, music-filled journey through the forgotten pages of Thailand’s political history.
Our Conversation Through Video Call, Leading Her into the Realm of "Force"
Thailand's 'toms' (as in tomboys) inhabit a unique place on the gender spectrum. They are girls who dress and act in a masculine way, typically sporting a uniform look of short hair, t-shirts and jeans. But toms don't consider themselves trans or even lesbians, despite the fact that they date women (often girly 'dees' or other toms).
“Series of Actions” focuses on the origins of the idea of film archiving in Thailand that is linked to the complex web of socio-political. Through exploring the body of work of Dome Sukvong, the founder of Thai Film Archive, including his essays, books, letters, memoirs, and reports.
'Home Video (Made in Thai Town)' is about the act of recording and its product as a cultural medium. The film explores the relationship between deteriorating records and the disappearance of societal and personal memories.
The daily life at the Narathiwat family’s home and the past of Usman, the inmate in the “Budu Explosion case” involving the arrest of teenagers from three southern border provinces at a student dormitory in the Ramkhamhaeng area in 2016, who has been detained for over 3 years.
A teacher is looking out of the window
During Songkran, the director and his family reunite at Grandma’s house where they share heartfelt conversations about their late Grandpa. One night, an enigmatic event unfolds during their sleep.
Katoey meets three people in rural Thailand who are clearly and confidently women even though their bodies are male. Integrated to an impressive degree into society, these women have successfully overcome the difference between their physical and mental genders.
It is a story about life, hopes and dreams. Normal Day is an observational documentary about the lives of a group of children living a normal day in a rural area far from civilization in Thailand.
In Thailand, all males turning 21 must participate in the military draft lottery. Drawing a black card grants exemption. Drawing a red card results in two years of military service. This short film follows two girls, who were born as males, as they participate in the drafting process.
Showcasing a variety of Thai culture.
I took the southern train at Hua Lamphong for the first time, and I wanted to recorded the experience. However, because of the flood, we eventually returned to our starting place at Hua Lamphong.
A well-known Thai writer/publisher Nong Wongthanong travelled to Italy last year. During the trip he saw several people with Down syndrome living a normal life, mingling with "ordinary" people in society. He looks back at his home country of Thailand and wonders; Why doesn't he see people with Down syndrome in everyday life, walking the street and being a part of society? He begins his research, and soon befriends 5 teenagers with Down syndrome: Pan, Beer, Bank and twin sisters Om and An.
With no Marijuana with Muaythai legend Buakaw Banchamek, life in the gym takes it course. A glimpse of Muaythai Training Camp in Bangkok.
I find myself looking back at memories of the past, where the feelings I hold now have become nothing more than fragments of memory. Everything begins to overlap – who I am now and who I was then. As I walk through the forest, the voice of my past echoes faintly, just fragments lingering in the air...
In 2010, more than 90 civilians were killed and 2,000 injured during crackdowns on pro-democracy protests in Bangkok; to date, Thai authorities have not held any government or military officials accountable. The film reframes the experiences of survivors by filming them sharing their stories in facilitated workshops and discussing how to seek justice for their family members with a human rights lawyer.
A Country young man wants to film a documentary about the historical remains of Phayao Province, but he faces obstacles because no one supports what he is doing.
A macro view of the microorganisms that flock to lamps in the darkness.
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.
Paths is a vibrant trip across the globe, painting an atypical portrait of humanity.
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.
Director confronts with his grandfather who used to work in Mae Moh power plant, exploring the atmosphere of local conflict and the many debates that arise from the existence of the power plant, including issues of toxic leaks, eviction from mining sites, and the future of Mae Moh when coal runs out in the future.
Corroded pixels struggle to form an image as they move through Cold War promises of development in rural Thailand, haunted by archival voices.
This propaganda film was supported by US Information Service (USIS) and presents Bangkok as a peaceful and developing city at the centre of the “free world,” a narrative pushed forth to counter the threat of the Cold War. Political motivations aside, the film shows Bangkok as a capital on the cusp of modernity that still preserves its traditional values, and there are scenes that evokes nostalgia such as the ballroom dancing at Lumpini Park Auditorium, Chalermthai Theatre on Ratchadamneon Avenue, Dusit Zoo, Don Mueng Airport, the studio at Thailand’s first TV channel, night scenes of downtown Bangkok, and many more.
A documentary that chronicles the declin of DVDs focuses on Lido DVD, one of the few remaining stores still selling DVDs amidst changing technology.
A brother and sister discuss domestic violence that has occurred by looking back at family photo albums.
A love letter from a man who has no future, no dreams, or even any ambition in life, until he encounters people, atmospheres, surroundings, and even the ghosts whose stories he listens to every night.
A housekeeper received a film made by her daughter. It's a film that combines found footages of Thailand during the Cold War with the present days images of Bangkok. Through these images she tells a story of the house owner and her own story of coming to the capital.
"Talad Phian Yindee" area is an old area of Phatthalung Province. It has historical importance both in terms of space and connection with people and communities in the past. and through various stories and events Both in terms of architecture that was destroyed by a big fire. or in the context of common points in the area and the ways of the people in the community, including the Tom Yum Kung incident and the large COVID outbreak in Phatthalung The documentary explores the area and its people to look back at its glorious past. and look to the future regarding the restoration and creative use of space. that the community participates in development to lead to the creation of creative art. Open space for expression of all voices in the urban community.
"Viriyaporn Boonprasert" is the name of a filmmaker who has been making social satire films since 2012, and no one knows who she is until now. But Viriyaporn's films reflect the condition of Thai society and Thai politics in the past to the present.
Video installation. Commissioned by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 36th Bienal.
A comedy movie covering the daily life's of Pattaya nightlife, massages, watch con artists and girls.
The heavily compressed time and space where all survival images from my memory live in. After journey, what will remain could be something we cannot talk to, but perceive.
Alarm bells are ringing in Thailand with widespread reports of a dramatic decline in mackerel populations, sparking fears of near extinction. But is this a genuine crisis threatening a beloved staple, or merely a fabricated headline designed to stir the pot ?
The first part of a triptych devoted to the ecological and social disasters caused by government decisions to massively develop the tourism industry.