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.
Acting (13 movies)
Past Present
2013
Circulation
1998
Mekong Hotel
2012
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
2015
Behind the Blur
2009
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014
Thirdworld
1999
Cinema Futures
2016
A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2018
Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer
2012
Wiara
2018
Uncertain Path
2021
Le bureau qui avait peur
2024
Directing (109 movies)
Tropical Malady
2004
Syndromes and a Century
2006
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2010
Blissfully Yours
2002
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021
Phantoms of Nabua
2009
The Adventure of Iron Pussy
2004
Mysterious Object at Noon
2000
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
2009
Haiku
2009
Prosperity for 2008
2008
Thirdworld
1999
Worldly Desires
2005
Mekong Hotel
2012
The State of the World
2007
Ashes
2012
M Hotel
2011
Mobile Men
2008
Luminous People
2007
Cactus River
2012
Vampire
2008
The Anthem
2006
Untitled
2019
I'm Still Breathing
2009
Sakda (Rousseau)
2012
Cemetery of Splendor
2015
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
Stories on Human Rights
2008
2019
2019
Rolling
2015
Decameron
2020
Sakda, Somchai
2018
Durmiente
2022
Night Colonies
2021
Emerald
2007
Home
2018
Fireworks (Archives)
2014
Trailer for CinDi
2011
Vapour
2015
Father
2001
Fan Dog
2016
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1994
My Mother’s Garden
2007
Ghost of Asia
2005
Footprints
2014
Haunted Houses
2001
Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves
1994
This and a Million More Lights
2003
Windows
1999
Meteorites
2007
Malee and the Boy
1999
Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2013
Monsoon
2011
A Conversation with the Sun (Installation)
2022
On Blue
2022
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011
Quattro Hong Kong 2
2011
For Bruce
2022
Art Through Our Eyes
2016
Fever Room
2015
20 Little Films
2012
Invisibility
2016
An Evening Shoot
2009
Ten Years Thailand
2018
Ablaze
2016
async - first light
2017
A Dedicated Machine
2009
Making of the Spaceship
2009
Nabua
2009
Memoria
2021
Short Plays
2014
Blue
2018
Dilbar
2013
Second Love in Hong Kong
2002
Jenjira, Brother Triam
2018
Bullet
1993
Fireworks Sketch
2014
Teem
2007
TON
2004
One Water
2013
Blue Propeller
2013
Memoria, Boy at Sea
2017
The Palace (Pipittan Tee Taipei)
2008
For Monkeys Only
2014
Father
2014
Nabua Song
2009
Primitive
2009
Fiction
2018
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
Boys at Noon
2000
Cinetracts '20
2020
October Rumbles
2020
Flowers & Banana Wind
2020
2020
2020
Nokia Short
2003
January Stories (version Harinezumi)
2024
Sleep Song
2022
Walking
2022
Action et Réaction
2022
Solarium
2023
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Mysterious Object at Noon | 2000 | Writer |
| Blissfully Yours | 2002 | Writer |
| The Adventure of Iron Pussy | 2004 | Writer |
| Tropical Malady | 2004 | Screenplay |
| Syndromes and a Century | 2006 | Writer |
| Syndromes and a Century | 2006 | Producer |
| Emerald | 2007 | Producer |
| Vampire | 2008 | Writer |
| Diseases and a Hundred Year Period | 2008 | Producer |
| A Letter to Uncle Boonmee | 2009 | Screenplay |
| Reincarnate | 2010 | Producer |
| Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | 2010 | Writer |
| Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | 2010 | Producer |
| Ashes | 2012 | Writer |
| Mekong Hotel | 2012 | Writer |
| Mekong Hotel | 2012 | Producer |
| Concrete Clouds | 2013 | Producer |
| Rolling | 2015 | Writer |
| Cemetery of Splendor | 2015 | Producer |
| Cemetery of Splendor | 2015 | Writer |
| Vapour | 2015 | Writer |
| Invisibility | 2016 | Writer |
| Railway Sleepers | 2017 | Producer |
| Ten Years Thailand | 2018 | Screenplay |
| Memoria | 2021 | Producer |
| Memoria | 2021 | Writer |
| Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933) | 2023 | Producer |