
July 16, 1970 · 55 years old
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…

Dying of kidney disease, a man spends his last, somber days with family, including the ghost of his wife and a forest spirit who used to be his son, on a rural northern Thailand farm.

A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.

A romance between a soldier and a country boy, wrapped around a Thai folk-tale involving a shaman with shape-shifting abilities.

A group of soldiers in a small town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand are struck with a bizarre sleeping illness.

Story about director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's parents, who were both doctors, and the director's memories about growing up in the hospital environment.

The story of a love affair that begins during a picnic on the Thai-Burmese border.

A film crew documents a folk story-exquisite corpse combination by random Thai people; the story is reenacted.

Shifting between fact and fiction in a hotel situated along the Mekong River, a film-maker rehearses a movie expressing the bonds between a vampiric mother and daughter.

Four Thai directors imagine their nation a decade from now, in visions surreal, satirical, and dystopian.

A tribute from filmmakers and critics around the world to the Taiwan New Cinema movement in the 1980s.

A couple explores the jungle in search of a spiritual tree while a film crew shoots a musical number.