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Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Bangkok, Thailand
Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of th…
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the prestigious 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or prize; Tropical Malady, which won a jury prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival; Blissfully Yours, which won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival; and Syndromes and a Century, which premiered at the 63rd Venice Film Festival and was the first Thai film to be entered in competition there. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, Weerasethakul has directed several features and dozens of short films. Themes reflected in his films (frequently discussed in interviews) include dreams, nature, sexuality (including his own homosexuality), and Western perceptions of Thailand and Asia, and his films display a preference for unconventional narrative structures (like placing titles/credits at the middle of a film) and for working with non-actors.
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2026
9 Temples to Heaven
Movie Producer
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2026
A Flower of Forgetfulness
Movie Director
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2025
Phantoms
Movie Director
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2024
Le bureau qui avait peur
Movie Self
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2024
January Stories
Movie Director
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2024
The Cowboy
Movie Thanks
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2023
Solarium
Movie Director
- 2023
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2022
On Blue
Movie Director
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2022
Durmiente
Movie Director
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2022
For Bruce
Movie Director
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2022
A Conversation with the Sun (Installation)
Movie Director
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2022
Sleep Song
Movie Director
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2022
Action et Réaction
Movie Director
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2022
Three Rocks
Movie Director
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2022
Walking
Movie Director
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2021
Uncertain Path
Movie
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2021
Memoria
Movie Producer
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2021
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
Movie Director
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2021
Night Colonies
Movie Director
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2021
Sarit
Movie Director
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2021
Waterfall
Movie Director
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2020
Flowers & Banana Wind
Movie Director
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2020
2020
Movie Director
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2020
October Rumbles
Movie Director
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2020
Cinetracts '20
Movie Director
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2020
Decameron
Movie Director
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2020
Seeing Circles
Movie Director
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2019
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Movie Director
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2019
Untitled
Movie Director
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2019
2019
Movie Director
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2018
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Movie Creative Consultant
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2018
Blue
Movie Director
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2018
Fiction
Movie Director
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2018
Ten Years Thailand
Movie Screenplay
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2018
A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Movie Self
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2018
Wiara
Movie Self
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2018
Home
Movie Director
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2018
Sakda, Somchai
Movie Director
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2018
Jenjira, Brother Triam
Movie Director
