Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Directing
Born 1970-07-16
Bangkok, Thailand
136 credits
Jury Prize 1
Yanghyun Prize 1
Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize 1
Officer of Arts and Letters 1
Awards
Won 1 Jury Prize Award
Jury Prize 1 won
- 2021 Jury Prize Won Memoria
Yanghyun Prize 1 won
- 2014 Yanghyun Prize Won
Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize 1 won
- 2013 Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize Won
Officer of Arts and Letters 1 won
- 2011 Officer of Arts and Letters Won
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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.
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Filmography
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Directing
44 credits
Sakda (Rousseau)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Memoria
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Tropical Malady
Vapour
Ashes
Luminous People
Jenjira’s Magnificent Dream
Short Plays
Cemetery of Splendor
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
Mysterious Object at Noon
Blissfully Yours
January Stories
Stories on Human Rights
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
October Rumbles
Empire
Syndromes and a Century
Ten Years Thailand
20 Little Films
async - first light
Mekong Hotel
Quattro Hong Kong 2
My Mother’s Garden
A Flower of Forgetfulness
Nabua
Invisibility
Phantoms
Worldly Desires
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
For Bruce
Home
Primitive
Meteorites
Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project
Blue Propeller
Cactus River
The State of the World
Fan Dog
The Anthem
Home
Writing
15 credits
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Memoria
Tropical Malady
Vapour
Ashes
Jenjira’s Magnificent Dream
Cemetery of Splendor
Mysterious Object at Noon
Blissfully Yours
Syndromes and a Century
Ten Years Thailand
Mekong Hotel
Invisibility
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project
Other credits
13 credits
Uncertain Path
The Cowboy
Vapour
The Parrot
Mysterious Object at Noon
Ten Years Thailand
Mekong Hotel
My Mother’s Garden
Worldly Desires
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
Meteorites
Cactus River
The State of the World
Acting
12 credits
Kulturzeit
Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
Mysterious Object at Noon
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Mekong Hotel
Cinema Futures
My Mother’s Garden
Worldly Desires
Past Present
Cactus River
Producing
12 credits
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Memoria
Jenjira’s Magnificent Dream
Cemetery of Splendor
Reincarnate
Concrete Clouds
Syndromes and a Century
Mekong Hotel
Diseases and a Hundred Year Period
Mi Madre Siempre
9 Temples to Heaven
Railway Sleepers
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