Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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.
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Movies (134)
9 Temples to Heaven
2026 · Producer
A Flower of Forgetfulness
2026 · Director
Phantoms
2025 · Director
Le bureau qui avait peur
2024 · Self, Director, Editor
January Stories
2024 · Director
The Cowboy
2024 · Thanks
Solarium
2023 · Director
Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)
2023 · Producer
On Blue
2022 · Director
Durmiente
2022 · Director
For Bruce
2022 · Director
A Conversation with the Sun
2022 · Director, Cinematography
Sleep Song
2022 · Director
Walking
2022 · Director
Action and Reaction
2022 · Director
Three Rocks
2022 · Director
Uncertain Path
2021
Memoria
2021 · Producer, Director, Writer
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021 · Director
Night Colonies
2021 · Director
Sarit
2021 · Director
Waterfall
2021 · Director
Flowers & Banana Wind
2020 · Director
2020
2020 · Director
October Rumbles
2020 · Director
Cinetracts '20
2020 · Director
Decameron
2020 · Director
Seeing Circles
2020 · Director
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019 · Director
Untitled
2019 · Director
2019
2019 · Director
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
2018 · Creative Consultant
Blue
2018 · Director, Editor
Fiction
2018 · Director
Ten Years Thailand
2018 · Screenplay, Editor, Director
A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2018 · Self
Wiara
2018 · Self
Sakda, Somchai
2018 · Director
Home
2018 · Director
Jenjira, Brother Triam
2018 · Director
Memoria, Boy at Sea
2017 · Director
async - first light
2017 · Director
Railway Sleepers
2017 · Producer
2017
2017 · Director
Ablaze
2016 · Director
Art Through Our Eyes
2016 · Director
Cinema Futures
2016 · Self
The Parrot
2016 · Thanks
Invisibility
2016 · Writer, Director
Fan Dog
2016 · Director
Fever Room
2015 · Director
Vapour
2015 · Editor, Director, Writer
Cemetery of Splendor
2015 · Director, Producer, Writer
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
2015 · Self
Rolling
2015 · Director, Writer
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014 · Self
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition - PHOTOPHOBIA
2014 · Self
Short Plays
2014 · Director
Fireworks (Archives)
2014 · Director, Camera Operator, Editor
Footprints
2014 · Director
Fireworks Sketch
2014 · Director
Father
2014 · Director
For Monkeys Only
2014 · Director
Past Present
2013 · Self
Concrete Clouds
2013 · Producer
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013 · Director
One Water
2013 · Director
Dilbar
2013 · Director
Blue Propeller
2013 · Director
Cactus River
2012 · Director, Camera Operator, Editor
Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer
2012 · Self
Sakda (Rousseau)
2012 · Director
Mekong Hotel
2012 · Self, Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
Ashes
2012 · Director, Writer
20 Little Films
2012 · Director
Quattro Hong Kong 2
2011 · Director
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011 · Director
Monsoon
2011 · Editor, Idea, Director
M Hotel
2011 · Director
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2010 · Director, Writer, Producer
Reincarnate
2010 · Producer
Phantoms of Nabua
2009 · Director
Making of the Spaceship
2009 · Director
A Dedicated Machine
2009 · Director
Nabua
2009 · Director
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
2009 · Director, Editor, Screenplay
An Evening Shoot
2009 · Director
Haiku
2009 · Director
Behind the Blur
2009
I'm Still Breathing
2009 · Director
Nabua Song
2009 · Director
Primitive
2009 · Director
Stories on Human Rights
2008 · Director
Mobile Men
2008 · Director, Camera Operator, Editor
Diseases and a Hundred Year Period
2008 · Producer
Vampire
2008 · Writer, Director
Prosperity for 2008
2008 · Director
The Palace (Pipittan Tee Taipei)
2008 · Director
Meteorites
2007 · Director, Editor
Emerald
2007 · Director, Producer, Editor, Camera Operator
The State of the World
2007 · Director, Director of Photography
Luminous People
2007 · Director
My Mother’s Garden
2007 · Director, Camera Operator, Editor
Teem
2007 · Director
The Anthem
2006 · Director
Syndromes and a Century
2006 · Director, Writer, Producer
Ghost of Asia
2005 · Editor, Director, Camera Operator, Idea
Worldly Desires
2005 · Director, Editor, Camera Operator
The Desire of the World: Jeonju Digital Project 2005
2005 · Director
Tropical Malady
2004 · Screenplay, Director
The Adventure of Iron Pussy
2004 · Director, Writer
TON
2004 · Director
This and a Million More Lights
2003 · Editor, Director, Camera Operator
Nokia Short
2003 · Director, Camera Operator, Editor
Blissfully Yours
2002 · Director, Writer
I-San Special
2002 · Idea
Second Love in Hong Kong
2002 · Director
Haunted Houses
2001 · Editor, Director, Camera Operator
Father
2001 · Director
Boys at Noon
2000 · Director
Mysterious Object at Noon
2000 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Editor
Thirdworld
1999 · Director, Camera Operator, Editor
Windows
1999 · Camera Operator, Editor, Director
Malee and the Boy
1999 · Director, Editor, Camera Operator
Circulation
1998 · Runner
Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves
1994 · Director, Camera Operator, Editor
0116643225059
1994 · Camera Operator, Director, Editor
Bullet
1993 · Director
Jenjira, Death
· Director
Home
· Director
Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project
· Writer, Director
For Shellie
· Director
Jenjira's Magnificent Dream
· Screenplay, Director, Producer
Mi Madre Siempre
· Producer
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