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Immortal Woman
Silent science fiction art film centring on an elderly pregnant lady. The maker learned the word euthanasia whilst studying in the Netherlands.Published on: -
All That Remains
The filmmaker collects memories of his youth. His brother often told him about being stung by a poisonous jellyfish. Here he retells the story.Published on: -
Dreams and Honour
A morality play about father figures and sons, good and bad influences, honour and disgrace, dynamically shot and edited.Published on: -
303 Fear/Faith/Revenge
This murder thriller set in a Catholic boys’ school was the 1998 box-office hit in Thailand.Published on: -
The Dumb Die Fast, the Smart Die Slow
Successful Thai ‘film noir’ about safebreaker who joins a young woman to rob her rich husband.Published on: -
Butterfly and Flowers
Unusual cross between neo-realism and sweet-yet-unsentimental romance concentrates on the Islamic minorities in the South of Thailand.Published on: -
Crime Kings
Macho-romantic biographical film about Sua Bai, an historic bandit from Thailand who stole from the rich and corrupt and then shared the booty with thPublished on: -
Dang Bireley’s and the Young Gangsters
This portrait of a ‘hero’ who gushes about James Dean and Elvis from the slums of Pra-Nakom in the late fifties underlines the gap between…Published on: -
Once Upon a Time… This Morning
An intelligent thriller about a ‘family in danger’. Children run away from home looking for a sweet father, but there’s a bag of heroin in…Published on: -
Mundane History
A simple story about the hesitant overtures between a bitter invalid and his new nurse is the prelude to a hallucinogenic meditation about our place…Published on: