Akrichalerm KALAYANAMITR has been working as a sound designer for several films.

Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr

Prabda Yoon

Erotic fantasies can come to life in the rooms of Motel Mistress. But whether these will be pleasurable for those involved is another matter.

Erotic fantasies can come to life in the rooms of Motel Mistress. But whether these will be pleasurable for those involved is another matter. A strange disappearance, revenge and aliens all turn up one typical afternoon in this love nest. A fantastic impression of our existential isolation.

IFFR 2016

Motel Mist, 

Hivos Tiger Awards Competition

Motel Mist

Wang Jing

Anocha Suwichakornpong

Kaz Cai

Three tasty shorts. The lunch is from a female Tiger winner, but the breakfast and dinner are also top-notch. However, there is an aftertaste, because these are three refined recipes for ending a relationship. A dinner can also be very unromantic.

IFFR 2011

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, 

Bright Future

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Aditya Assarat

An architect from Bangkok spends some time in a forgotten coastal town in southern Thailand for a building commission. A doomed place that has not recovered from the tsunami three years ago. When something beautiful blossoms between the architect and the owner of his hotel, they are not to find happiness.

IFFR 2008

Wonderful Town, 

VPRO Tiger Awards Competition

Wonderful Town

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

IFFR 2007

Anthem, 

Short: As Long As It Takes

Anthem

Apichatpong Weerasethekul (advisor)

Pimpaka Towira

Jakrawal Nilthamrong

Koichi Shimizu

Interactive installation. Two spaces. A light space with sounds. A dark space with images. Hundreds of buttons can be used to change the sound or images. The images have been taken from clandestine shots of the Thai army killing demonstrators.

Black Air, 

Exploding Cinema: New Dragon Inns

Black Air

Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit

36 is the number of shots on an analogue roll of film. It's also the number of shots in this film. Yet it's not a strict film, but the playful quest of a young photographer for the photos that disappeared on her computer: a whole year's worth, including one of a challenging encounter.

IFFR 2013

36, 

Tongpong Chantarangkul

Another kind of road movie. Two sisters - played by two striking actresses - accompany their dead mother by ambulance across Thailand. They have grown apart, but the journey and the circumstances force them to come closer to each other. A secret will be revealed.

IFFR 2012

I Carried You Home, 

I Carried You Home

Christelle Lheureux

Ode to the spirit of life. Made in the framework of remembering the tsunami disaster. Young female Thai film maker lets children make a film with a spirit that floats over the water.

IFFR 2006

Ghost of Asia, 

Short: Asian Hot Houses

Ghost of Asia

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 in the universe. As impressive and mysterious as life itself.

IFFR 2010

Mundane History, 

Mundane History

A couple of young people drive out of town for a long journey. It could well be a Thai Jules and Jim. On the way, it however becomes clear that the world outside the car is not so light-hearted, that one Thai is after another Thai’s blood. A late second film by a now-wiser filmmaker.

Island Funeral, The

Bright Future Main Programme

The Island Funeral

Cabin had to become a film for the King of Thailand, but the maker filmed him at home in his home village. 'If the king is good, he has to be good everywhere,' he must have thought.

Nimit, 

Nimit

Pen-ek Ratanaruang

Hallucinating film by the Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang (6ixtynin9, Last Life in the Universe) that is largely set in a forest inhabited by female ghosts. The story is about a marriage that has cooled and then is shaken up when the man disappears into the forest for a brief period.

Nymph, 

Spectrum

Nymph

Conrad Clark

Young Chinese woman has started a mushroom farm in the desert of the Gulf states. Ambition, love, identity, uprooting and a clash of cultures in a visually impressive second film by the cosmopolitan Clark, who lives in China. A report from the New World.

Fallible Girl, A

A Fallible Girl

In his most topical and politically charged film to date, Weerasathekul represents Thailand as a building that used to be a school, a place of study and contemplation, but which has changed into a hospital built on top of a cemetery, where the dead fight out their age-old battle at the expense of the living.

Cemetery of Splendour, 

Limelight

Cemetery of Splendour

It is worthwhile learning to pronounce the name Apichatpong Weerasethakul, because this young Thai is one of the hippest newcomers in the international world of art and film. A slinking and sultry film about beautiful soldiers and a tiger from another world.

IFFR 2005

Tropical Malady, 

S.E.A.Eyes

Tropical Malady

There are filmmakers who return to their childhood for beautiful atmospheric films, but the imaginative Thai master Apichatpong Weerasethakul returns to the time before his parents found each other. Yet his childhood is also evoked in two parts. A sunny part for his mother and a cool and occasionally bizarre part for his father.

Syndromes and a Century, 

Maestros: Kings & Aces

Syndromes and a Century

Lee Chatametikool

Father jumps off roof. Economy caves in. Childhood sweetheart remains out of reach. Nice girl next door slides into prostitution. Elder brother knows better. Younger brother has no idea. Only a very special filmmaker could turn that into something light-footed and moving.

IFFR 2014

Concrete Clouds, 

Concrete Clouds

Last day of official mourning for a child. Mother receives her final visitors: the guilty parties. Masterfully captured in a single shot.

Mother, The

Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films

The Mother

Powerful second feature by Anocha Suwichakornpong, who won a Tiger in 2010 with Mundane History, starts with the Thammasat University massacre of 1976 in Bangkok. In an effortless and elegant manner, the filmmaker then takes the viewer through meandering storylines that examine both Thailand and the medium of film itself.

IFFR 2017

By the Time It Gets Dark, 

By the Time It Gets Dark

The Thai censor couldn't cope, but the film comprises erotic scenes of the highest level. A man and a woman kill time quarrelling in a hotel. When the man takes a fatherly interest in a beautiful 19 year old girl, the woman loses it. With almost real dreams.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr

Filmography