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Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Thai film director, screenwriter, and film producer
July 16, 1970 (54 years old)
Col. 2021. Poetic drama by Apichatpong Weerasethakul with Tilda Swinton, Elkin Diaz, Jeanne Balibar. In Bogota, a Scottish botanist is trying to find the source of the loud, metallic sound she hears in her head.
Runtime: 136 min.

Cemetery of Splendour

V.O.: Rak ti Khon Kaen
Thaï. 2015. Poetic drama by Apichatpong Weerasethakul with Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop Lomnoi, Jarinpattra Rueangram. In a temporary clinic, a crippled widow and a young medium watch over soldiers suffering from a strange sleeping sickness.
Runtime: 122 min.
Thaï. 2012. Drama by Apichatpong Weerasethakul with Jenjira Pongpas, Sakda Kaewbuadee, Maiyatan Techaparn. In a hotel on the banks of the Mekong, a filmmaker is rehearsing a film about the bond between a vampiric mother and daughter.
Runtime: 61 min.

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

V.O.: Loong Boonmee raleuk chat
Thaï. 2010. Drama by Apichatpong Weerasethakul with Thanapat Saisaymar, Jenjira Pongpas, Natthakarn Aphaiwonk. After being visited by the ghost of his wife, a dying beekeeper has a dreamlike vision of a past life.
Runtime: 113 min.

The State of the World

V.O.: O Estado do Mundo
Port. 2007. Documentary by Ayisha Abraham, Chantal Akerman, Pedro Costa, Vicente Ferraz, Wang Bing, Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Six filmmakers illustrate in their own way their vision of the state of the world today.
Runtime: 105 min.

Syndromes and a Century

V.O.: Sang Sattawat
Thaï. 2006. Dramatic comedy by Apichatpong Weerasethakul with Natarat Sawaddikul, Jaruchai Iamaram, Sophon Pukanok. A female doctor is wooed by a colleague she is not in love with while a dentist falls in love with a Buddhist monk.
Runtime: 105 min.

Tropical Malady

V.O.: Sud pralad
Fr. 2004. Fantasy by Apichatpong Weerasethakul with Banlop Lomnoi, Sakda Kaewbuadee, Sirivech Jareonchon. A young soldier goes in search of his lover, a country boy who is said to have turned into a phantom tiger after disappearing into the rainforest.
Runtime: 118 min.

Blissfully Yours

V.O.: Sud sanaeha
Thaï. 2002. Sentimental drama by Apichatpong Weerasethakul with Kanokporn Thongaram, Min Oo, Jenjira Jansuda. With the help of an older friend, a working-class woman flees the city with an illegal Burmese immigrant for a romantic getaway in the jungle.
Runtime: 125 min.

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