Thunska Pansittivorakul
Thunska PANSITTIVORAKUL (1973, Thailand) graduated in art education from Bangkok University. His second feature-length documentary, Happy Berry, won the Grand Prize at the 4th Taiwan International Documentary Festival in 2004. In 2007 he
received the Silpathorn Award from the The Ministry of Culture’s Office of
Contemporary Arts. In 2012 Pansittivorakul founded the production company Sleep
of Reason Films. He also teaches at the department of film at Bangkok
University. His first fiction film Supernatural (2014) had its world premiere
at IFFR. He collaborated with Harit Srikhao on documentaries sPACEtIME (2015) and Homogeneous, Empty Time (2017). He returns to IFFR with Isan Odyssey (2025).
Filmography
Private Life (2000, short), …for Shiw Ping 28/12/97 (2000, short), Love Sickness (2000, short), Sigh (2001, short), Voodoo Girls (2002), Chemistry (2003, short), Mahusachan Krungtap/Unseen Bangkok (2004, short), Sawan sud uam/Happy Berry (2004, doc), Wan fah sua/After Shock (2005, short), Pleuy shi vit/Life Show (2005, short), Vous vous souviens de moi? (2005, short), Endless Story (2005, short), Sawan sud uam/Happy Berry (2004, doc), Happy Berry: Oops! I Did It Again (2005, short), Out of Control (2006, short), You Are Where I Belong To (2006, short), Middle-earth (2007, short), Love Is Our Destination (2007, short), ‘Action!’ (2008, short), Soak (2008, short), This Area Is Under Quarantine (2009, doc), Jutti/Reincarnate (2010, doc), Poo kor karn rai/The Terrorists (2011, doc), Nua dhamma chat/Supernatural (2014), sPACEtIME (2015, doc, co-dir), Soon-ya kal/Homogeneous, Empty Time (2017, doc, co-dir) I Was Young? Ignorant? Curious! (2017, doc), Homogeneous, Empty Time (2017), Santikhiri Sonata (2019), Avalon (2020), Danse Macabre (2021), Damnatio Memoriae (2023), Isan Odyssey (2025)
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Thunska Pansittivorakul op IFFR
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Isan Odyssey
Thunska Pansittivorakul | 80' | Thailand | International premiere
A journey in song and dance through the suppressed chapters of Thailand’s political history. -
Sleeping Beauty
Chulyanont Siriphol | 40' | Thailand | International premiere
Ironically described as the fairytale of a beautiful princess. Warm reality shows the life of a girl who will never be called a princess. -
Stories from the North
Uruphong Raksasad | 88' | Thailand | None
Eight short stories from Northern Thailand, an area of lost villages and countless rice paddies. This landscape is changing too and that is why the… -
Opportunities
Nitiphong Thintupthai | 11' | Thailand | International premiere
The politician has only just left the stage with big promises, when the poor start searching through the rubbish he left behind. -
After Shock
Thunska Pansittivorakul | 12' | Thailand | International premiere
Ode to the clouds and life. In Phuket after the tsunami, there are still attractive people to be found. Alongside those beautiful clouds of course.… -
Life Show
Thunska Pansittivorakul | 10' | Thailand | -
Frank and personal small documentary. Interview with a sex star. At the end of the day, it comes down to what is in your pants. -
Ghost of Asia
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Christelle Lheureux | 9' | Thailand | -
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… -
This Area Is Under Quarantine
Thunska Pansittivorakul | 80' | Thailand | World premiere
It doesn’t look spectacular at first. Two boys each talk separately about their experiences. In the end also on the sexual level. In the end… -
‘Action!’
Thunska Pansittivorakul | 5' | Thailand | International premiere
The ‘Action!’ that is called to start shooting. Here the unedited shots of an actor. Above all the actor. -
Vous vous souviens de moi
Thunska Pansittivorakul | 14' | Thailand | European premiere
Far from Thailand. Far from his lover. Looking back at images of windswept French coast. Listening to a nostalgic chanson. Nominated for the Tiger Awa