- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- July 16, 1970
- Place of Birth
- Bangkok, Thailand
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 dis…
Filmography
movie9 Temples to Heaven
2026 · Producer
movieA Flower of Forgetfulness
2026 · Director
moviePhantoms
2025 · Director
movieLe bureau qui avait peur
2024 · Self, Director, Editor
movieJanuary Stories
2024 · Director
movieThe Cowboy
2024 · Thanks
movieSolarium
2023 · Director
movieNitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)
2023 · Producer
movieOn Blue
2022 · Director
movieDurmiente
2022 · Director
movieFor Bruce
2022 · Director
movieA Conversation with the Sun (Installation)
2022 · Director, Cinematography
Sleep Song
2022 · Director
Walking
2022 · Director
Action et Réaction
2022 · Director
Three Rocks
2022 · Director
movieUncertain Path
2021
movieMemoria
2021 · Producer, Director, Writer
movieThe Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021 · Director
movieNight Colonies
2021 · Director
Sarit
2021 · Director
movieWaterfall
2021 · Director
movieFlowers & Banana Wind
2020 · Director
movie2020
2020 · Director
October Rumbles
2020 · Director
movieCinetracts '20
2020 · Director
Decameron
2020 · Director
Seeing Circles
2020 · Director
movie30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019 · Director
movieUntitled
2019 · Director
movie2019
2019 · Director
movieHale County This Morning, This Evening
2018 · Creative Consultant
movieBlue
2018 · Director, Editor
movieFiction
2018 · Director
movieTen Years Thailand
2018 · Screenplay, Editor, Director
movieA.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2018 · Self
movieWiara
2018 · Self
Sakda, Somchai
2018 · Director
Home
2018 · Director
Jenjira, Brother Triam
2018 · Director
movieMemoria, Boy at Sea
2017 · Director
movieasync - first light
2017 · Director
movieRailway Sleepers
2017 · Producer
movie2017
2017 · Director
movieAblaze
2016 · Director
movieArt Through Our Eyes
2016 · Director
movieCinema Futures
2016 · Self
movieThe Parrot
2016 · Thanks
movieInvisibility
2016 · Writer, Director
Fan Dog
2016 · Director
movieFever Room
2015 · Director
movieVapour
2015 · Editor, Director, Writer
movieCemetery of Splendor
2015 · Director, Producer, Writer
movieThe Legend of the Palme d'Or
2015 · Self
movieRolling
2015 · Director, Writer
movieFlowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014 · Self
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition - PHOTOPHOBIA
2014 · Self
movieShort Plays
2014 · Director
movieFireworks (Archives)
2014 · Director, Camera Operator, Editor
movieFootprints
2014 · Director
movieFireworks Sketch
2014 · Director
movieFather
2014 · Director
For Monkeys Only
2014 · Director
moviePast Present
2013 · Self
movieConcrete Clouds
2013 · Producer
movieVenice 70: Future Reloaded
2013 · Director
movieOne Water
2013 · Director
movieDilbar
2013 · Director
movieBlue Propeller
2013 · Director
movieCactus River
2012 · Director, Camera Operator, Editor
movieTony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer
2012 · Self
movieSakda (Rousseau)
2012 · Director
movieMekong Hotel
2012 · Self, Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
movieAshes
2012 · Director, Writer
movie20 Little Films
2012 · Director
movieQuattro Hong Kong 2
2011 · Director
movie3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011 · Director
movieMonsoon
2011 · Editor, Idea, Director
M Hotel
2011 · Director
movieUncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2010 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieReincarnate
2010 · Producer
movieEmpire
2010 · Director
moviePhantoms of Nabua
2009 · Director
Making of the Spaceship
2009 · Director
A Dedicated Machine
2009 · Director
Nabua
2009 · Director
movieA Letter to Uncle Boonmee
2009 · Director, Editor, Screenplay
movieAn Evening Shoot
2009 · Director
movieHaiku
2009 · Director
movieBehind the Blur
2009
movieI'm Still Breathing
2009 · Director
Nabua Song
2009 · Director
moviePrimitive
2009 · Director
movieStories on Human Rights
2008 · Director
movieMobile Men
2008 · Director, Camera Operator, Editor
movieDiseases and a Hundred Year Period
2008 · Producer
movieVampire
2008 · Writer, Director
Prosperity for 2008
2008 · Director
movieThe Palace (Pipittan Tee Taipei)
2008 · Director
Meteorites
2007 · Director, Editor
movieEmerald
2007 · Director, Producer, Editor, Camera Operator
movieThe State of the World
2007 · Director, Director of Photography
movieLuminous People
2007 · Director
My Mother’s Garden
2007 · Director, Camera Operator, Editor
movieTeem
2007 · Director
movieThe Anthem
2006 · Director
movieSyndromes and a Century
2006 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieGhost of Asia
2005 · Editor, Director, Camera Operator, Idea
movieWorldly Desires
2005 · Director, Editor, Camera Operator
The Desire of the World: Jeonju Digital Project 2005
2005 · Director
movieTropical Malady
2004 · Screenplay, Director
movieThe Adventure of Iron Pussy
2004 · Director, Writer
TON
2004 · Director
This and a Million More Lights
2003 · Editor, Director, Camera Operator
movieNokia Short
2003 · Director, Camera Operator, Editor
movieBlissfully Yours
2002 · Director, Writer
I-San Special
2002 · Idea
Second Love in Hong Kong
2002 · Director
Haunted Houses
2001 · Editor, Director, Camera Operator
Father
2001 · Director
Boys at Noon
2000 · Director
movieMysterious Object at Noon
2000 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Editor
movieThirdworld
1999 · , Director, Camera Operator, Editor
Windows
1999 · Camera Operator, Editor, Director
Malee and the Boy
1999 · Director, Editor, Camera Operator
movieCirculation
1998 · Runner
tvKulturzeit
1995 · self
Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves
1994 · Director, Camera Operator, Editor
0116643225059
1994 · Camera Operator, Director, Editor
movieBullet
1993 · Director
Jenjira, Death
— · Director
Home
— · Director
Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project
— · Writer, Director
For Shellie
— · Director
Jenjira’s Magnificent Dream
— · Screenplay, Director, Producer
Mi Madre Siempre
— · Producer