Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
1962 (62 года)The Master
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Kongdej Jaturanrasmee
A Thai documentary about 'Van VDO' the VHS shop in 1990s. The shop established the independent cinema scene for Thai audience by selling VHS of American, European, and Asian indie films. However, all of them are pirate and illegal.
The Master
Behind the Blur
Erich Fleshman
Christopher Doyle, Erich Fleshman
An insightful documentary about Thai cinema, which features a colourful and long running film history, yet struggles as the industry attempts to move forward. This film examines the past and focuses on the Thai New Wave since 1997 by combining film clips, and interviews from Thai directors and others artists, like Asian hip-hop sensation Thaitanium, who are trying to create a more personal style of art.
Behind the Blur
Last Life in the Universe
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Tadanobu Asano, Sinitta Boonyasak
An obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian living in Bangkok spends most of his days contemplating suicide in his apartment. His life changes when he witnesses the death of a young girl and becomes acquainted with her elder sister.
Last Life in the Universe
หมานคร
Wisit Sasanatieng
Mahasamut Boonyaruk, Saengthong Gate-Uthong
Follow the life of Pod as he moves to Bangkok from the country. Pod's new life starts with getting a job, losing a finger and dreaming about a girl. A movie were nothing is impossible, and just because you get killed by raining red helmets doesn't mean you have to stop driving a motorcycle taxi.
Citizen Dog
มนต์รักทรานซิสเตอร์
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Supakorn Kitsuwon, Siriyakorn Pukkavesh
An aspiring singer leaves his pregnant bride a radio for company when he is drafted into the army; unfit for military life, the man goes AWOL and joins a pop music troupe but soon after his wife tracks him down his life spirals out of control.
Mon-Rak Transistor
ประชาธิป'ไทย
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Pasakorn Pramoolwong
Paradoxocracy, co-directed with Pen-ek's longtime friend and producer, Pasakorn Pramoolwong, begins with the 1932 Siamese Revolution - which transformed Thailand from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional one - and works its way to the present day, chronicling the country's major political revolutions, movements and countless coups along the way. Using a combination of archival footage, voice-overs and interviews with 15 unnamed academics, activists and political leaders, the film presents the directors' personal journey to come to an understanding of how their country arrived at its current state of near-constant political division and dysfunction.
Paradoxocracy
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Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Lalita Panyopas, Black Phomtong
A woman, fired from a financial corporation during the Asia crisis, returns home with no money. However, she finds a box with a fortune in front of her door, and decides to keep it. However, the people that left it there soon want it back.
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Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her
Eric Khoo, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Ananda Everingham, Erich Fleshman
This program features three digital short films by Asian filmmakers. Singapore veteran filmmaker Eric Khoo's NO DAY OFF (39 min) records the life of a maid who leaves her husband and baby for Singapore. Darezhan Omirbayev's ABOUT LOVE (38 min) is a bitter love story based on Anton Chekhov's novel, in which a lonely math teacher falls in love with her married university classmate. Pen-ek Ratanaruang's TWELVE TWENTY (30 min) depicts the encounters of a man and a woman on a long haul flight, where they spend the next twelve hours and twenty minutes reading, drinking, eating and watching movies and sleeping by each other's side, as if they are a married couple.
Talk to Her
Southeast Asian Cinema – When the Rooster Crows
Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso
Eric Khoo, Brillante Mendoza
Southeast Asia Cinema - When the rooster crows is a voice of diversity reaching for change. Brillante Mendoza, Eric Khoo, Garin Nugroho, Pen Ek Ratanaruang give voice to a region rich with traditions, ethnic groups, languages, politics, and religions. It is cinema, at its purest form, fighting for freedom of expression, documenting real lives of ordinary people, giving voice to the underdogs and the outcasts. The amalgamation of these aspects gives birth to an ultra-neo-realistic cinema language currently unique to films from this region.
Southeast Asian Cinema – When the Rooster Crows
Invisible Waves
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Tadanobu Asano, Kang Hye-jung
After inadvertently killing his girlfriend, a man flees Macau for Thailand in an attempt to cope with his guilt, and avoid possible arrest. But the relocation doesn't prevent his problems from following him, as his new friends could be potential enemies.
Invisible Waves
ฝันบ้าคาราโอเกะ
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Fay Atsawet, Phaibunkiat Khiaogao
Pu is a young woman who is having some bad dreams. Her father, meanwhile, has fallen in love with a karaoke bar hostess girl named Yok who's the girlfriend of a mobster. A hitman named Noi is then dispatched to kill the father, and Pu ends up falling in love with Noi.
Fun Bar Karaoke
