Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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

An insomniac lies in bed as theatrical backdrops unveil themselves and her sheet catches aflame. (imdb)

A collaboration between the fine artist Camelia Mirescu and the sound artist Cooper Raines.

Cemetery of Splendour is a 2015 Thai drama film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The plot revolves around a spreading epidemic of sleeping sickness. Spirits appear to the stricken and hallucination becomes indistinguishable from reality.

The clouds descend onto a village and engulf it for a day. They touch the roof tiles, the beds, the chairs, the carpets, the grass, and the bodies, infecting everything with the fever of white stupor. (Letterboxd)

Mekong Hotel is a portrait of a hotel near the Mekong River in the north-east of Thailand. The river there marks the border between Thailand and Laos. In the bedrooms and terraces, Apichatpong held a rehearsal with his crew for a movie that he wrote years ago called Ecstasy Garden. The film shuffles different realms, fact and fiction, expressing the bonds between a vampire-like mother and her daughter, the young lovers and the river. (mubi.com)

On his deathbed, Uncle Boonmee, recalls his many past lives.

A filmmaker captures images that characterize the violence and repression as well as the hope of rebirth and remembrance in northeastern Thailand. (imdb)

A fluorescent tube illuminates an empty playground in the evening. Nearby a flash of light is projected on a makeshift screen. This outdoor movie is a portrait of a village repeatedly struck by lightning. As night falls, the silhouette figures of young men emerge, they are playing with a football raging with fire. (Animate Project)

In the early 2007, The Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, under the Ministry of Culture contacted me to make a moving image about the king.... After much pondering, I decided to make a film on the subject that I know of: my life - my mother, my nephew, my niece, my brother, my sister, my lover, my dog, my room, my favourite landscapes, and other things including my light. (Kickthemachine.com)

The Anthem is a celebration of filmmaking and the viewing experience. In Thailand, before every cinema film screening, there will be a Royal Anthem before the feature presentation. The purpose is to honour the King. It is one of the rituals imbedded in Thai society to give a blessing to something or someone before certain ceremonies. The Anthem presents a 'Cinema Anthem' that praises and blesses the approaching feature for each screening. (KG)

Set 40 years ago in a small town's hospital, juxtaposed with a similar hospital in the present day. It is a fictional recollection of the love and work of the filmmaker's parents before they finally became lovers, exploring both memories and everyday lives in two eras where a painfully shy young man is courting Dr. Aroon, and a young monk has an unexplained attraction to a dentist.

A Monkey's Raincoat is a personal documentary about young artists working at the 'Rijksakademie'; an institute which offers residency to sixty talented artists from all over the world.

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

A quiet romance unfolds between Keng, a soldier stationed in a rural Thai town, and Tong, a local village boy. Their budding affection takes a surreal turn when Keng vanishes into a dense jungle to hunt a shape-shifting tiger spirit believed to possess human souls, blurring the line between myth and desire.

A transvestite secret agent is sent on a mission to the Thai countryside. (imdb)

This film focuses on a Burmese refugee whose fate has linked him to the lives of two Thai women in a border town. (Kick the Machine)