In this compelling documentary, members of the Thai youth soccer team tell their stories of getting trapped in Tham Luang Cave in 2018 — and surviving.
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In this compelling documentary, members of the Thai youth soccer team tell their stories of getting trapped in Tham Luang Cave in 2018 — and surviving.
A camera crew travels through Thailand asking villagers to invent the next chapter of an ever-growing story.
In this documentary, four boys spend their senior year of high school studying for college-entrance exams that only one in five students will pass.
A Thai documentary about 'Van VDO' the VHS shop in 1990s. The shop established the independent cinema scene for Thai audience by selling VHS of American, European, and Asian indie films. However, all of them are pirate and illegal.
A documentary filmmaker captures the final days of the last standalone cinema in Thailand as former employees return to help close it down.
Members of Thai girl group BNK48 share the ups and downs of preparing for the 6th Single Senbatsu General Election.
Like Kamanita, the unchanged Morakot is a star burdened with (or fueled by) memories. Apichatpong collaborated with his three regular actors, who recounted their dreams, hometown life, bad moments, and love poems, to re-supply the hotel with new memories.
Story of the merits of the revered abbot Luang Pho Khoon.
Over 2,500 years ago, one man showed the world a way to enlightenment. This beautifully produced Buddhist film by the BBC meticulously reveals the fascinating story of Prince Siddhartha and the spiritual transformation that turned him into the Buddha.
In collaboration with Lomo, an Austrian camera company, and Mubi, a global film website, Weerasethakul was invited to make a work to launch the new LomoKino, a portable motion picture camera. Ashes juxtaposes the intimacy of his daily routine with the destruction of memories and his observations of the dark side of Thailand’s social realities.
Crying Tiger is a documentary film presented in the format. reality show Follow up with filming stories about the lives of 5 provincial people who had to leave their hometowns to become local laborers in Bangkok.
Jojo, a 17-year-old girl from Bangkok, is about to graduate from high school. After her friend Q reveals a secret to her, the two girls grow close and spend all their time together. Jojo's father wholeheartedly approves of the friendship and is just glad that Jojo is not going on any dates with boys.
The first railway line in Thailand was inaugurated in 1893 – a sign of progress and prosperity. Shot over eight years on every active line of the country's railway system, this wondrous documentary offers an unprecedented immersion into the country's past and present.
Explores the landscape and stories within the community of Krabi, Southern Thailand. A major tourist destination in Thailand, the filmmakers want to capture the town in this specific moment where the pre-historic, the more recent past and the contemporary world collide, sometimes uneasily.
Thai singer Artiwara Kongmalai organises a 2215 kilometre marathon to raise money for much-needed hospital equipment, an event which takes 55 days.
Danse Macabre is a dance that explores deaths that are remembered and forgotten in history, including those of kings, citizens, and stateless people. In Thailand, many deaths were suspicious in nature over the past 90 years, but nobody dared to question them.
The final act of BKPPproject from the I Told Sunset About You installments.
A black cloak of forgetting, suppressing and covering has descended on the events that took place in Bangkok in spring 2010. Black as the night of complete darkness in which the film opens. Two men are in a fishing boat talking. One feels more than one sees that the seawater around them is warm and smooth, teeming with brightly-colored fish. By night, the rubber plantation also comes across as enticing and full of secrets, until lurid reminders of the bloody massacre flash up.
She now lives many miles away from her mother, who is waiting to hear from her. It is a bittersweet, restless, nostalgic moment, and she remembers those vanished years.
Ninlawan Pinyo is the matriarch of a Thai American family, who hustled for her fortune by founding a naem pork sausage factory in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
In 2016, Aekaphong’s uncle was murdered in his house alongside his wife. A year later, Aekaphong returns to his hometown to investigate the man’s past and come to terms with his absence.
This documentary invites film professionals of different ages to share their life and debate. In stories of their own careers with an open mind, giving an angle that others might not have imagined. The film reveals the wounds and the pressure in a most straightforward way in order to allow viewers to receive complete information about the profession in all aspects with complete roundness. At first, it will be a story about a career of an actress. Points of view from actors, 6 women of different perspectives and ages.
Between faith and ritual, this documentary explores religious culture in Thailand and worshippers from different walks of life across the country.
Get to know the series Gelboys better through a documentary that tells the behind-the-scenes story before the series came to be.
A group of young men arrives with machines to dig and fill. They wander agricultural areas. They live and eat in fields, ditches and creeks.
In a village in Thailand, Pomm works in a care center for Europeans with Alzheimer's. While she is separated from her children, she helps Elisabeth during the final stages of her life, as Maya, a new patient, is on her way from Switzerland.
This film was shot in an area called Santikhiri, which means ‘the Hill of Peace’. After General Prem’s government came to power in the 1980s, everything—drugs, communism, corruption, human trafficking, and stateless persons—was entirely suppressed to foster order and peace.
A joyful shot recorded by Weerasethakul himself and two young men who become acquainted by filming each other in the back of a moving pickup truck. Though seemingly playful, the short film is a subtle portrait of migrant workers in the north of Thailand.
Teem Nov 20, 9:53 min. Teem Nov 21, 22:38 min. Teem Nov 22, 27:31 min. Each projection in this work is a daily morning portrait of Teem, the artist’s partner. As winter approached in late 2007, Teem informed Weerasethakul that he would hibernate until February 2008. As a result, he slept a lot during this time while Weerasethakul observed and sometimes disrupted his partner’s mission with his mobile phone.
A Buddhist scientist from Bangkok decides to cryo-preserve his daughter's brain. As scandal swirls around the family, they struggle to grieve a child that, in their view, is suspended between death and a future reawakening.
A depiction of the landscape, both metaphorically and realistically, of Panyi island. Some footage in the film was taken from the material shot for Mysterious Object at Noon.
3 Friends is an experimental fiction/documentary film conceived and directed by 3 friends.
In Myanmar, a young soldier named Jai and other Shan people wrestle with disenfranchisement and disillusionment in a land where they lack basic rights.
Actors and team members share their behind-the-scenes memories of making the coming-of-age movie that became a beloved classic of Thai cinema.
A traveler finds Muaythai as a hobby in the land of smiles, thailand. Following a visit at fairtex gym, meeting the fighters at the gym, he finally realizes the life; Pattaya has to offer. Mastering Muaythai, with his statement ' Where Borne fighters appear, legends are made', he soon learned the arts of the fighting style and as a freelance legendary fighter his nickname evolve to "The Real Deal".
Short film by Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, a closer look at Bangkok, made for Beat Hotel
The journey of the 36 film to the audience at the Busan Film Festival
A candid-film about girl group called CGM48, while the girls thought that they are being captured for a documentary, but actually it's all a prank!
Amidst the tranquility of the deep woods in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, a young man who goes on a daily dive in a contaminated river to catch fish for his lover goes missing. He is unable to come back to a loved one who eagerly waits for his return.
Six directors, six independent films, six visions on the state of the world. Each carrying a unique and personal interpretation of a specific experience, their crossover creates new space for a dynamic and radical inquisitive reflection.
A story of Wat Wanlayangkool who is a famous writer and a political activist. After the coup he became a political refugee and had to move far away from his family and his home.
One of the ingrained rituals in Thai society is the blessing automatically given before certain ceremonies and events such as the playing of the Royal Anthem in movie theaters before feature presentations. This short presents a "Cinema Anthem" which comically praises and blesses the feature to come.
A documentary about the behind the scenes of BL or commonly known as "Yaoi series." Where does BL series come from? Why Yaoi fangirls are physically and financially dedicating themselves to BL?
The documentary produced in commemoration of the 101st anniversary of the birth of “Vijit Kunawut,” one of the greatest directors in the history of Thai cinema.
The controversial Thai Buddhist temple "Dhammakaya" is in crisis as its abbot was charged with money-laundering and receiving stolen property. The film reflects the clash between politics and faith in modern Thai society.
A group of young politicians campaigning against an authoritarian constitution speak up, spark hope and ignite a once-in-a-generation movement in this energetic exploration of the recent elections in Thailand.
“Woven”, a documentary with a vibrant tapestry that unravels tradition and modern clothes. From the stunning landscapes of England to the rural Isaan region in Thailand, we'll uncover the stories behind traditional clothing. We'll delve into the environmental impact of fast fashion and celebrate the sustainability of traditional textiles, from the intricate embroidery of China Polano to the bold tartans of Scottish kilts. We'll explore the power of clothing to shape identity and challenge societal norms.
Heals traces the rise of Pangina Heals, from a childhood shaped by intergenerational trauma and a conflicted relationship with his alcoholic mother to becoming Asia's first drag queen with a Vegas residency.
Are tourists destroying the planet-or saving it? How do travelers change the remote places they visit, and how are they changed? From the Bolivian jungle to the party beaches of Thailand, and from the deserts of Timbuktu, Mali to the breathtaking beauty of Bhutan, GRINGO TRAILS traces stories over 30 years to show the dramatic long-term impact of tourism on cultures, economies, and the environment.
A gay radical outsider, a flamboyant Muslim, and a nasty single mom live in a devout Muslim area on the Thai border under decades of martial law.
June, a Thai woman working in Bangkok, converted from Buddhism to Islam when she married Ake, a Muslim man living in southern Thailand. Leaving behind her urban life, she begins life with her husband, while learning the teachings of Islam and the deeply rooted customs of her new home.
After the crackdown of the pro-democracy protesters in the 8888 Uprising on 8th August 1988, Tarji's parents were students who joined the protest in Rangoon, left Burma to Thailand through Koh Song Island (Victoria Point) of Ranong Province. They moved and worked in the Southern region of Thailand. The documentary focuses on observation Tarji's life that is about to change from children to the world of adults. The film interviews the life of Tarji and his mother. Follow Tarji to various locations, observing his coming of age.
Perth has broken off contact with Poon. What's left are images showing the two men's sex life. Perth was Poon's twenty years younger cinematographer.
If you speak some Thai, it’s not hard to follow though unfortunately there’re no English subtitles for this lovely experience. Watching a cardiologist flip through fifteen books of nature sketches and notes, lovingly drawn and painted over thirty years, doesn’t sound like much of a movie. Instead of attending a lecture, however, we are absorbed and amused because our forest guide by art happens to be Rungsrit Kanjanavanit or ‘Dr Mong’, well-known Thai conservationist, bird-watcher and nature artist.
In Thailand, a hymn to rice need not always be sung. A dance, or spectacular homemade fireworks can say the same thing. As can a film, as is convincingly demonstrated by this lyrical, beautifully filmed homage to this essential staple food.
a short documentary about the yellow university vehicles in Thailand.
The crews are called to shoot a film, but no one has the script, shooting schedule, food, or even actor. The director also has nothing but urge to film so as always, unpleasant things happened.
A documentary about a Thai idol girl group, BNK48 originally adapting from a Japanese idol girl group, AKB48 open opportunity to ordinary teens to be selected into a controlled system and competitive concept.
This documentary reveals the tension and tragedy of the Cambodian-Thai border conflict through the stories of an ex-soldier and villagers on both sides.