Known For
Directing
Born
Jul 16, 1970
Place of Birth
Bangkok, Thailand
Credits
134 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
9 Temples to Heaven
Producer
A Flower of Forgetfulness
Director
Phantoms
Director
Le bureau qui avait peur
Self
January Stories
Director
The Cowboy
Thanks
Solarium
Director
Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)
Producer
On Blue
Director
Durmiente
Director
For Bruce
Director
A Conversation with the Sun (Installation)
Director
Sleep Song
Director
Walking
Director
Three Rocks
Director
Action et Réaction
Director
Uncertain Path
Memoria
Producer
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
Director
Night Colonies
Director
Sarit
Director
Waterfall
Director
Flowers & Banana Wind
Director
2020
Director
October Rumbles
Director
Cinetracts '20
Director
Decameron
Director
Seeing Circles
Director
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Director
Untitled
Director
2019
Director
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Creative Consultant
Blue
Director
Fiction
Director
Ten Years Thailand
Screenplay
A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Self
Wiara
Self
Home
Director
Jenjira, Brother Triam
Director
Sakda, Somchai
Director
Memoria, Boy at Sea
Director
async - first light
Director
Railway Sleepers
Producer
2017
Director
Ablaze
Director
Art Through Our Eyes
Director
Cinema Futures
Self
The Parrot
Thanks
Invisibility
Director
Fan Dog
Director