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.

Cast

Past Present

(Self)

Circulation

(Runner)

Mekong Hotel

(Self)

The Legend of the Palme d'Or

(Self)

Behind the Blur

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

(Self)

Thirdworld

The Importance of Telepathy

Cinema Futures

(Self)

A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

(Self)

Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer

(Himself)

Wiara

(Himself)

Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition - PHOTOPHOBIA

(Self)

Uncertain Path

Le bureau qui avait peur

(Self)

Kulturzeit

(self)
Crew

Empire

(Director)

Tropical Malady

(Director)

Tropical Malady

(Screenplay)

Syndromes and a Century

(Director)

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

(Director)

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

(Writer)

Blissfully Yours

(Director)

The Year of the Everlasting Storm

(Director)

Phantoms of Nabua

(Director)

The Adventure of Iron Pussy

(Director)

Mysterious Object at Noon

(Director)

A Letter to Uncle Boonmee

(Director)

Memoria

(Producer)

Haiku

(Director)

Prosperity for 2008

(Director)

Thirdworld

(Director)

Worldly Desires

(Director)

Mekong Hotel

(Director)

Mekong Hotel

(Writer)

The State of the World

(Director)

Ashes

(Writer)

Ashes

(Director)

Mysterious Object at Noon

(Writer)

Diseases and a Hundred Year Period

(Producer)

M Hotel

(Director)

Mobile Men

(Director)

Luminous People

(Director)

Cactus River

(Director)

Vampire

(Writer)

Vampire

(Director)

The Anthem

(Director)

Untitled

(Director)

I'm Still Breathing

(Director)

Sakda (Rousseau)

(Director)

Vapour

(Editor)

Ten Years Thailand

(Screenplay)

Ten Years Thailand

(Editor)

Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)

(Producer)

Cemetery of Splendor

(Director)

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

(Director)

Stories on Human Rights

(Director)

2019

(Director)

Rolling

(Director)

Rolling

(Writer)

Cemetery of Splendor

(Producer)

Jenjira, Death

(Director)

Home

(Director)

Decameron

(Director)

Sarit

(Director)

Sakda, Somchai

(Director)

Durmiente

(Director)

Mysterious Object at Noon

(Director of Photography)

Night Colonies

(Director)

Emerald

(Editor)

Emerald

(Director)

Emerald

(Producer)

Home

(Director)

Fireworks (Archives)

(Director)

Fireworks (Archives)

(Camera Operator)

Fireworks (Archives)

(Editor)

Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project

(Director)

Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project

(Writer)

Trailer for CinDi

(Director)

Vapour

(Director)

Father

(Director)

9 Temples to Heaven

(Producer)

Fan Dog

(Director)

0116643225059

(Director)

My Mother’s Garden

(Director)

Mobile Men

(Camera Operator)

My Mother’s Garden

(Editor)

0116643225059

(Camera Operator)

0116643225059

(Editor)

Cactus River

(Camera Operator)

Ghost of Asia

(Director)

Malee and the Boy

(Editor)

Footprints

(Director)

Cactus River

(Editor)

Haunted Houses

(Director)

Haunted Houses

(Camera Operator)

Haunted Houses

(Editor)

Worldly Desires

(Editor)

Mysterious Object at Noon

(Camera Operator)

Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves

(Director)

Thirdworld

(Camera Operator)

This and a Million More Lights

(Camera Operator)

Emerald

(Camera Operator)

Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves

(Editor)

This and a Million More Lights

(Director)

Ghost of Asia

(Idea)

This and a Million More Lights

(Editor)

Mobile Men

(Editor)

Mysterious Object at Noon

(Editor)

My Mother’s Garden

(Camera Operator)

Windows

(Director)

Blissfully Yours

(Writer)

Meteorites

(Director)

Ghost of Asia

(Editor)

Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves

(Camera Operator)

Windows

(Editor)

Malee and the Boy

(Director)

Thirdworld

(Editor)

Worldly Desires

(Camera Operator)

Monsoon

(Idea)

Malee and the Boy

(Camera Operator)

Windows

(Camera Operator)

La Punta

(Director)

Monsoon

(Director)

Ghost of Asia

(Camera Operator)

Monsoon

(Editor)

A Conversation with the Sun (Installation)

(Director)

A Conversation with the Sun (Installation)

(Cinematography)

On Blue

(Director)

3.11 A Sense of Home

(Director)

Quattro Hong Kong 2

(Director)

For Bruce

(Director)

Syndromes and a Century

(Writer)

The Adventure of Iron Pussy

(Writer)

I-San Special

(Idea)

Art Through Our Eyes

(Director)

For Shellie

(Director)

Fever Room

(Director)

20 Little Films

(Director)

Invisibility

(Director)

Invisibility

(Writer)

The Fountains of Paradise

(Screenplay)

The Fountains of Paradise

(Director)

Railway Sleepers

(Producer)

Meteorites

(Editor)

Cemetery of Splendor

(Writer)

A Letter to Uncle Boonmee

(Screenplay)

A Letter to Uncle Boonmee

(Editor)

An Evening Shoot

(Director)

Ten Years Thailand

(Director)

Ablaze

(Director)

async - first light

(Director)

A Dedicated Machine

(Director)

Making of the Spaceship

(Director)

Nabua

(Director)

Memoria

(Director)

Memoria

(Writer)

Short Plays

(Director)

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

(Creative Consultant)

Blue

(Director)

Blue

(Editor)

Dilbar

(Director)

Second Love in Hong Kong

(Director)

Mi Madre Siempre

(Producer)

Jenjira, Brother Triam

(Director)

Bullet

(Director)

Fireworks Sketch

(Director)

Teem

(Director)

TON

(Director)

One Water

(Director)

Blue Propeller

(Director)

Memoria, Boy at Sea

(Director)

The Palace (Pipittan Tee Taipei)

(Director)

For Monkeys Only

(Director)

Father

(Director)

Nabua Song

(Director)

The Parrot (Papagajka)

(Thanks)

Concrete Clouds

(Producer)

Primitive

(Director)

Fiction

(Director)

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

(Director)

Syndromes and a Century

(Producer)

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

(Producer)

Boys at Noon

(Director)

Cinetracts '20

(Director)

October Rumbles

(Director)

Vapour

(Writer)

Reincarnate

(Producer)

Flowers & Banana Wind

(Director)

2020

(Director)

Nokia Short

(Director)

Nokia Short

(Camera Operator)

Nokia Short

(Editor)

January Stories (version Harinezumi)

(Director)

Sleep Song

(Director)

Walking

(Director)

Action et Réaction

(Director)

Solarium

(Director)

A Conversation with the Sun (VR)

(Director)

Three Rocks

(Director)

Seeing Circles

(Director)

Le bureau qui avait peur

(Director)

Le bureau qui avait peur

(Editor)

The Desire of the World: Jeonju Digital Project 2005

(Director)

Mekong Hotel

(Director of Photography)

Mekong Hotel

(Producer)