Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Biography
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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Movies (50)
Phantoms
Director (Directing)
2025
Le bureau qui avait peur
as Self
2024
January Stories
Director (Directing)
2024
Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)
Producer (Production)
2023
Solarium
Director (Directing)
2023
On Blue
Director (Directing)
2022
Durmiente
Director (Directing)
2022
For Bruce
Director (Directing)
2022
A Conversation with the Sun (Installation)
Director (Directing)
2022
Sleep Song
Director (Directing)
2022
Walking
Director (Directing)
2022
Action et Réaction
Director (Directing)
2022
Three Rocks
Director (Directing)
2022
Uncertain Path
2021
Memoria
Producer (Production)
2021
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
Director (Directing)
2021
Night Colonies
Director (Directing)
2021
Waterfall
Director (Directing)
2021
Flowers & Banana Wind
Director (Directing)
2020
2020
Director (Directing)
2020
October Rumbles
Director (Directing)
2020
Cinetracts '20
Director (Directing)
2020
Decameron
Director (Directing)
2020
Seeing Circles
Director (Directing)
2020
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Director (Directing)
2019
Untitled
Director (Directing)
2019
2019
Director (Directing)
2019
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Creative Consultant (Crew)
2018
Blue
Director (Directing)
2018
Fiction
Director (Directing)
2018
Ten Years Thailand
Screenplay (Writing)
2018
A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
as Self
2018
Wiara
as Himself
2018
Sakda, Somchai
Director (Directing)
2018
Home
Director (Directing)
2018
Jenjira, Brother Triam
Director (Directing)
2018
Memoria, Boy at Sea
Director (Directing)
2017
async - first light
Director (Directing)
2017
Railway Sleepers
Producer (Production)
2017
2017
Director (Directing)
2017
Ablaze
Director (Directing)
2016
Art Through Our Eyes
Director (Directing)
2016
Cinema Futures
as Self
2016
The Parrot (Papagajka)
Thanks (Crew)
2016
Invisibility
Writer (Writing)
2016
Fan Dog
Director (Directing)
2016
Fever Room
Director (Directing)
2015
Vapour
Editor (Editing)
2015
Cemetery of Splendor
Director (Directing)
2015
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
as Self
2015