Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Known for: Directing
Born: July 16, 1970
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
134 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
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9 Temples to Heaven
2026
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A Flower of Forgetfulness
2026
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Phantoms
2025
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Le bureau qui avait peur
2024
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January Stories
2024
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The Cowboy
2024
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Solarium
2023
9.5
Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)
2023
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On Blue
2022
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Durmiente
2022
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For Bruce
2022
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A Conversation with the Sun (Installation)
2022NR
Sleep Song
2022NR
Walking
20222.0
Action et Réaction
2022NR
Three Rocks
2022
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Uncertain Path
2021
6.0
Memoria
2021
6.4
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
2021
7.7
Night Colonies
2021NR
Sarit
2021
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Waterfall
2021
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Flowers & Banana Wind
2020
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2020
2020
7.0
October Rumbles
2020
6.0
Cinetracts '20
20206.5
Decameron
2020NR
Seeing Circles
2020
5.3
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
7.0
Untitled
2019
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2019
2019
6.1
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
2018
6.1
Blue
2018
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Fiction
2018
6.1
Ten Years Thailand
2018
7.5
A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2018
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Wiara
2018NR
Sakda, Somchai
2018NR
Home
2018NR
Jenjira, Brother Triam
2018
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Memoria, Boy at Sea
2017
6.0
async - first light
2017
7.0
Railway Sleepers
2017
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2017
2017
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Ablaze
2016
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Art Through Our Eyes
2016
6.2
Cinema Futures
2016
6.2
The Parrot
2016
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Invisibility
20164.4
Fan Dog
2016
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Fever Room
2015
6.0
Vapour
2015
6.0
Cemetery of Splendor
2015
6.0
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
2015
7.5
Rolling
2015
7.1
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014NR
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition - PHOTOPHOBIA
2014
5.1
Short Plays
2014
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Fireworks (Archives)
2014
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Footprints
2014
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Fireworks Sketch
2014
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Father
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For Monkeys Only
2014
6.3
Past Present
2013
6.4
Concrete Clouds
2013
5.0
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
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One Water
2013
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Dilbar
2013
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Blue Propeller
2013
5.8
Cactus River
2012
8.0
Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer
2012
6.0
Sakda (Rousseau)
2012
5.5
Mekong Hotel
2012
5.3
Ashes
2012
6.0
20 Little Films
2012
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Quattro Hong Kong 2
2011
6.5
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011
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Monsoon
20114.7
M Hotel
2011
6.6
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2010
4.1
Reincarnate
2010
6.1
Phantoms of Nabua
2009NR
Making of the Spaceship
2009NR
A Dedicated Machine
2009NR
Nabua
2009
6.6
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
2009
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An Evening Shoot
2009
4.1
Haiku
2009
4.0
Behind the Blur
2009
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I'm Still Breathing
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Nabua Song
2009
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Primitive
2009
2.2
Stories on Human Rights
2008
6.5
Mobile Men
2008
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Diseases and a Hundred Year Period
20086.5
Vampire
20088.0
Prosperity for 2008
2008
6.0
The Palace (Pipittan Tee Taipei)
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Meteorites
2007
8.0
Emerald
2007
5.3
The State of the World
2007
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Luminous People
2007NR
My Mother’s Garden
2007
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Teem
2007
6.0
The Anthem
2006
6.8
Syndromes and a Century
2006
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Ghost of Asia
2005
5.8
Worldly Desires
2005NR
The Desire of the World: Jeonju Digital Project 2005
2005
6.7
Tropical Malady
2004
5.2
The Adventure of Iron Pussy
2004NR
TON
2004NR
This and a Million More Lights
2003
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Nokia Short
2003
6.4
Blissfully Yours
20027.0
I-San Special
2002NR
Second Love in Hong Kong
2002NR
Haunted Houses
2001NR
Father
20019.0
Boys at Noon
2000
6.4
Mysterious Object at Noon
2000
7.0
Thirdworld
1999NR
Windows
19999.0
Malee and the Boy
1999
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Circulation
19987.0
Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves
199410.0
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1994
7.0
Bullet
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Jenjira, Death
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Home
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Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project
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For Shellie
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Jenjira's Magnificent Dream
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Mi Madre Siempre
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