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.
Filmography
all 119
Movies 118
Director 97
self 8
Producer 7
Writer 1
TV Shows 1
Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933) (2023)
On Blue (2022)
Durmiente (2022)
For Bruce (2022)
A Conversation with the Sun (Installation) (2022)
Uncertain Path (2021)
Memoria (2021)
The Year of the Everlasting Storm (2021)
Night Colonies (2021)
Flowers & Banana Wind (2020)
2020 (2020)
October Rumbles (2020)
Cinetracts '20 (2020)
Decameron (2020)
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing (2019)
Strands (2019)
2019 (2019)
Blue (2018)
Fiction (2018)
Ten Years Thailand (2018)
A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2018)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)
Wiara (2018)
Home (2018)
Jenjira, Brother Triam (2018)
Memoria, Boy at Sea (2017)
async - first light (2017)
Railway Sleepers (2017)
Ablaze (2016)
Art Through Our Eyes (2016)
Cinema Futures (2016)
Invisibility (2016)
Simulacrum Tremendum (2016)
Fan Dog (2016)
Fever Room (2015)
Vapour (2015)
Cemetery of Splendor (2015)
The Legend of the Palme d'Or (2015)
Rolling (2015)
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema (2014)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition - PHOTOPHOBIA (2014)
Short Plays (2014)
Fireworks (Archives) (2014)
Father (2014)
For Monkeys Only (2014)
Fireworks Sketch (2014)
Footprints (2014)
Past Present (2013)
Concrete Clouds (2013)
La Punta (2013)
Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)
One Water (2013)
Dilbar (2013)
Blue Propeller (2013)
Cactus River (2012)
Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer (2012)
Sakda (Rousseau) (2012)
Mekong Hotel (2012)
Ashes (2012)
20 Little Films (2012)
Quattro Hong Kong 2 (2011)
3.11 A Sense of Home (2011)
Trailer for CinDi (2011)
Monsoon (2011)
M Hotel (2011)
Empire (2010)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Reincarnate (2010)
Phantoms of Nabua (2009)
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009)
Behind the Blur (2009)
Haiku (2009)
I'm Still Breathing (2009)
Primitive (2009)
Nabua Song (2009)
Stories on Human Rights (2008)
Mobile Men (2008)
Diseases and a Hundred Year Period (2008)
Vampire (2008)
Prosperity for 2008 (2008)
The Palace (Pipittan Tee Taipei) (2008)
Meteorites (2007)
Emerald (2007)
The State of the World (2007)
Luminous People (2007)
My Mother’s Garden (2007)
Teem (2007)
The Anthem (2006)
Syndromes and a Century (2006)
Ghost of Asia (2005)
Worldly Desires (2005)
Tropical Malady (2004)
The Adventures of Iron Pussy (2004)
TON (2004)
This and a Million More Lights (2003)
Nokia Short (2003)
Blissfully Yours (2002)
I-San Special (2002)
Haunted Houses (2001)
Father (2001)
Boys at Noon (2000)
Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
Thirdworld (1999)
Malee and the Boy (1999)
Windows (1999)
Circulation (1998)
Kulturzeit (1995)
0116643225059 (1994)
Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves (1994)
Bullet (1993)
The Fountains of Paradise
Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Project
Mi Madre Siempre
For Shellie
9 Temples to Heaven
Home
Sarit
Jenjira, Death
Tong, Somchai
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1970-07-16 (53 years old)
Birth PlaceBangkok, Thailand
CitizenshipsThailand
Also Known Asอภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล, Aphichatphong Wirasetthakun, Joe, 아피찻퐁 위라세타쿤, 阿彼察邦·韦拉斯哈古, 아피찻퐁 위라세타꾼
AwardsOfficer of Arts and Letters, Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, Jury Prize, Yanghyun Prize
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