Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Directing·Jul 16, 1970·Bangkok, Thailand

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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.

Film	Credit
9 Temples to Heaven2026 · Producer	Producer
A Flower of Forgetfulness2026 · Director	Director
Phantoms2025 · Director	Director
Le bureau qui avait peur2024 · Self, Director	Self, Director
January Stories2024 · Director	Director
Solarium2023 · Director	Director
Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)2023 · Producer	Producer
On Blue2022 · Director	Director
Durmiente2022 · Director	Director
For Bruce2022 · Director	Director
A Conversation with the Sun (Installation)2022 · Director	Director
SSleep Song2022 · Director	Director
WWalking2022 · Director	Director
AAction et Réaction2022 · Director	Director
TThree Rocks2022 · Director	Director
Uncertain Path2021 · Actor	Actor
Memoria2021 · Producer, Director, Writer	Producer, Director, Writer
The Year of the Everlasting Storm2021 · Director	Director
Night Colonies2021 · Director	Director
SSarit2021 · Director	Director
Waterfall2021 · Director	Director
Flowers & Banana Wind2020 · Director	Director
20202020 · Director	Director
October Rumbles2020 · Director	Director
Cinetracts '202020 · Director	Director
DDecameron2020 · Director	Director
SSeeing Circles2020 · Director	Director
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing2019 · Director	Director
Untitled2019 · Director	Director
20192019 · Director	Director
Blue2018 · Director	Director
Fiction2018 · Director	Director
Ten Years Thailand2018 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul2018 · Self	Self
Wiara2018 · Self	Self
SSakda, Somchai2018 · Director	Director
HHome2018 · Director	Director
JJenjira, Brother Triam2018 · Director	Director
Memoria, Boy at Sea2017 · Director	Director
async - first light2017 · Director	Director
Railway Sleepers2017 · Producer	Producer
20172017 · Director	Director
Ablaze2016 · Director	Director
Art Through Our Eyes2016 · Director	Director
Cinema Futures2016 · Self	Self
Invisibility2016 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
FFan Dog2016 · Director	Director
Fever Room2015 · Director	Director