Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Directing
Born July 16, 1970 · Bangkok, Thailand
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.
Directed (112)
Phantoms
2025
Le bureau qui avait peur
2024
January Stories
2024
Solarium
2023
On Blue
2022
Durmiente
2022
For Bruce
2022
A Conversation with the Sun (Installation)
2022
Sleep Song
2022
Walking
2022
Action et Réaction
2022
Three Rocks
2022
Memoria
2021
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021
Night Colonies
2021
Waterfall
2021
Flowers & Banana Wind
2020
2020
2020
October Rumbles
2020
Cinetracts '20
2020
Decameron
2020
Seeing Circles
2020
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
Untitled
2019
2019
2019
Blue
2018
Fiction
2018
Ten Years Thailand
2018
Sakda, Somchai
2018
Home
2018
Jenjira, Brother Triam
2018
Memoria, Boy at Sea
2017
async - first light
2017
2017
2017
Ablaze
2016
Art Through Our Eyes
2016
Invisibility
2016
Fan Dog
2016
Fever Room
2015
Vapour
2015
Cemetery of Splendor
2015
Rolling
2015
Short Plays
2014
Fireworks (Archives)
2014
Footprints
2014
Fireworks Sketch
2014
Father
2014
For Monkeys Only
2014
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
One Water
2013
Dilbar
2013
Blue Propeller
2013
Cactus River
2012
Sakda (Rousseau)
2012
Mekong Hotel
2012
Ashes
2012
20 Little Films
2012
Quattro Hong Kong 2
2011
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011
Monsoon
2011
M Hotel
2011
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2010
Empire
2010
Phantoms of Nabua
2009
Making of the Spaceship
2009
A Dedicated Machine
2009
Nabua
2009
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
2009
An Evening Shoot
2009
Haiku
2009
I'm Still Breathing
2009
Nabua Song
2009
Primitive
2009
Stories on Human Rights
2008
Mobile Men
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
The Desire of the World: Jeonju Digital Project 2005
2005
Tropical Malady
2004
The Adventure of Iron Pussy
2004
TON
2004
This and a Million More Lights
2003
Nokia Short
2003
Blissfully Yours
2002
Second Love in Hong Kong
2002
Haunted Houses
2001
Father
2001
Boys at Noon
2000
Mysterious Object at Noon
2000
Thirdworld
1999
Windows
1999
Malee and the Boy
1999
Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves
1994
0116643225059
1994
Bullet
1993
Jenjira, Death
Home
Sarit
Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project
For Shellie
Jenjira’s Magnificent Dream
Acting (14)
Le bureau qui avait peur
2024
Uncertain Path
2021
A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2018
Wiara
2018
Cinema Futures
2016
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
2015
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition - PHOTOPHOBIA
2014
Past Present
2013
Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer
2012
Mekong Hotel
2012
Behind the Blur
2009
Thirdworld
1999
Circulation
1998