Apichatpong Weerasethakul Movies

The first railway line in Thailand was inaugurated in 1893 – a sign of progress and prosperity. Shot over eight years on every active line of...

"A ghost band only plays at night and in dreams. Tilda and Sam are carried away by their song as they practice birth and death in the realm of no...

One of the ingrained rituals in Thai society is the blessing automatically given before certain ceremonies and events such as the playing of the...

A woman lies awake at night. Nearby, a set of theatre backdrops unspools itself, unveiling two alternate landscapes. Upon the woman’s blue...

A joyful shot recorded by Weerasethakul himself and two young men who become acquainted by filming each other in the back of a moving pickup truck....

Durmiente shows Tilda Swinton, the lead actress of Memoria, sleeping in a bedroom as the shadows grow longer.

ABLAZE premiered at the 27th Singapore Film Festival, November 24, 2016

Described as being based on Weerasethakul's dreams.

This film featuring Tilda Swinton was shot early 2024, in a abandoned camp of the Kew Thab Yang Forest Preserve in Chiang Rai. The artist made two...

"Fever Room" features Jenjira (Jen) and Banlop (Itt), two of Apichatpong’s regular actors who also appear in his film, "Cemetery of Splendour"....

An omnibus project examining, well, the state of the world.

A contemplative trip down memory lane with one of the leading voices of the Second New Wave of Taiwanese Cinema. Saw Tiong Guan clearly established a...

Film inspired by two things: an article written by a Thai woman who went Sri Lanka on a religious pilgrimage by climbing a holy mountain, and sci-fi...

Produced for the Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai, (2023), « Solarium » was inspired by a 1981 horror film, « The...

A short for his website, Kickthemachine

Lost cinema. Lost culture. Lost country. Lost people. How to recreate the past with nothing? Cinema of the impossible. The silent past is a horror...

Created in celebration of the three-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this short essay centres on a monologue delivered by...

Tilda Swinton, a British actress and friend of Weerasethkul, organized Film on the Rocks, a film festival in the Maldives where she invited the...

A group of people is in a boat traveling along Mekong River that stretches along the Thai-Laos border. They are running against the wind,...

A depiction of the landscape, both metaphorically and realistically, of Panyi island. Some footage in the film was taken from the material shot for...