Apichatpong Weerasethakul Movies

Petch, one of the young men of Nabua, composed and plays this song about his village written to commemorate the first shoot-out between the army and...

Made for 'Short Films for the King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 80th Birthday', 2007.

Tilda Swinton, a British actress and friend of Weerasethkul, organized Film on the Rocks, a film festival in the Maldives where she invited the...

Lost cinema. Lost culture. Lost country. Lost people. How to recreate the past with nothing? Cinema of the impossible. The silent past is a horror...

A joyful shot recorded by Weerasethakul himself and two young men who become acquainted by filming each other in the back of a moving pickup truck....

A film crew go in search of Nok Phii - a rare bird which feeds on the blood of other creatures.

A short for his website, Kickthemachine

Cactus River is a diary of the time Apichatpong Weerasethakul visited a newlywed couple near the Mekong River.

The soundtrack to a radio soap opera set in a luxury hotel is acted out by characters who are riding a ramshackle bus from Bangkok to a small town in...

This work filmed in the Peruvian jungle pays tribute to the American experimental filmmaker Bruce Baillie, who died in 2020, and whose work inspired...

Home is a portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s house in Chiang Mai, during monsoon season.

Canadian actor and filmmaker Connor Jessup (Closet Monster, Falling Skies) profiles Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a maverick of Thai cinema who...

Made to celebrate the new year. A single firework travelling through the night sky.

An insightful documentary about Thai cinema, which features a colourful and long running film history, yet struggles as the industry attempts to move...

One of the ingrained rituals in Thai society is the blessing automatically given before certain ceremonies and events such as the playing of the...

For a Fiery Monkey Year.

A short film made with a mobile phone, commissioned by Nokia as part of the promotion of the first model of a cellular phone with a built-in camera.

A group of teens gather at a house near the rice field for the shooting of an unknown movie. Wearing army costumes, they practice with their gun, one...

A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the...