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Anocha Suwichakornpong

Anocha SUWICHAKORNPONG (1976, Thailand) is a scriptwriter, director and owner of production house Electric Eel Films. Graceland (2006) became the first Thai short film to be included in the Official Selection at Cannes Film Festival. Mundane History (2009), her feature film debut, won a Tiger Award in 2010. Her short film Thursday also had its world premiere at IFFR in 2015. By the Time It Gets Dark (2016) was her second feature film. Krabi, 2562, a mischievous blend of documentary and camp co-directed with Ben Rivers, screens at IFFR 2020.

Filmography

(selection) Graceland (2006, short), Duj jit jai/Like. Real. Love (2008, short), Jai (2008, short), Jao nok krajok/Mundane History (2009), All That Remains (2010, short), Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner (2010, co-dir), Pohn talay/Overseas (2012, short, co-dir), Thursday (2015, short, co-dir), Coconut (2015, instal), Dao kanong/By the Time It Gets Dark (2016), Krabi, 2562 (2019, co-dir)

Anocha Suwichakornpong at IFFR

  • In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire

    A poetic title, almost a film description, that demands some close reading. Just like the film, which – as a visual poem – doesn’t immediately d

    • Hubert Bals Fund
    • Previously On

  • By the Time It Gets Dark

    Powerful second feature by Anocha Suwichakornpong, who won a Tiger in 2010 with Mundane History, starts with the Thammasat University massacre of 1976

    • Hubert Bals Fund
    • Previously On

  • Graceland

    A man and a woman leave Bangkok, but it doesn’t seem clear or important where to.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Like. Real. Love

    Three short films that are linked together by the investigative tone of the maker. She investigates for instance how to introduce a dead mother in the

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Zero Gravity

    There used to be an army of God in Thailand/Burma led by 12-year old twins. The rest of this mysterious film consists of lots of real imagination.

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • Overseas

    Hard work at smelly Thai fish processing facilities as experienced by a young immigrant from Myanmar. A victim, we’ll soon discover.

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • A Room with a Coconut View

    As automated voice Kanya guides foreign guest Alex through Thai resort Bangsaen, he grows curious about what she isn’t showing him.

    • Rabbit Hole

  • Concrete Clouds

    Father jumps off roof. Economy caves in. Childhood sweetheart remains out of reach. Nice girl next door slides into prostitution. Elder brother knows

    • Hivos Tiger Awards Competition

  • Krabi, 2562

    Prehistoric cave-dwellers, a retired boxer and a commercials actor populate a Thais coastal town threatened by mass tourism.

    • Signatures

  • By the Time It Gets Dark

    Powerful second feature by Anocha Suwichakornpong, who won a Tiger in 2010 with Mundane History, starts with the Thammasat University massacre of 1976

    • Bright Future