Pen-Ek Ratanaruang — Director (14)

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Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her (2006)
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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.

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Prachathipa'Thai (2013)
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彭力·云旦拿域安 / 帕萨宫·博拉努翁
other title: 泰国民主 / Paradoxocracy …
Featuring a mix of archival footage and talking-head interviews, "Paradoxocracy" covers such topics as the transition from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy in the 1930s, the pro-democracy demonstrations and violent crackdowns of the 1970s and "Black May" in 1992 to the rise of the "ice cream man", Thaksin Shinawatra. Interviewees include historian and 1970s student leader Thongchai Wanichakul and historian and former Thammasat University rector Charnvit Kasetsiri. There's also chulalongkorn University academic Chaiyan Chaiyaporn, who was arrested after ripping up his ballot in the 2006 election, red-shirt activist Sombat Boon-ngam-anong and former student activist and SEA Write Award-winner Jiranan Pitpreecha, who fled to the jungle in the '70s. And Thammasat Unversity academic Worajet Pakeerat of the Nitirat Group appears. He's the guy who was physically assaulted for his group's opposing views of Article 112, the royal-insult law.

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Transistor Love Story (2003)
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彭力·云旦拿域安 actor: Supakorn Kitsuwon / Siriyakorn Pukkavesh …
other title: 真情收音机 / มนต์รักทรานซิสเตอร์ …
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.

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60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011)
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other title: 零年中的孤单六十秒 / 60 Sekundit Üksindust Aastal Null …
An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was screened one time only on a purpose-built 20x12 meter public cinema screen in the Port of Tallinn, Estonia, on 22 December 2011. A special projector was constructed for the event which allowed the actual filmstrip to be burnt at the same time as the film was shown.

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69 (2000)
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★ 7.4 18 ratings
other title: 69两头勾 / เรื่องตลก 69 …
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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Invisible Waves (2006)
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other title: 无形海浪 / คำพิพากษาของมหาสมุทร …
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.

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异梦卡拉OK (1997)
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other title: ฝันบ้าคาราโอเกะ / 死到临头唱生晒 …
A young working woman has to follow obscure advice by an old sage in order to prevent a worst-case scenario. A returning nightmare of a family home built by her deceased mother for the still-living father in the hereafter gives her and her fortune teller the necessary instructions. A loving, yet complex tale of the new Thai middle class. Houses are built, family members live in parallel worlds and the presence is a very Asian mix of the 19th and 21st Centuries.

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Samui Song (2016)
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★ 4.2 5 ratings
彭力·云旦拿域安 actor: 赖拉·邦雅淑 / 大卫阿萨法纳特
other title: 苏梅之歌 / ไม่มีสมุยสำหรับเธอ …
A soap opera actress finds herself increasingly pressured by her husband, a rich foreigner entirely devoted to a charismatic cult leader.

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Last Life in the Universe (2003)
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★ 7.5 25 ratings
彭力·云旦拿域安 actor: 浅野忠信 / Sinitta Boonyassak …
other title: 宇宙只有我和你 / เรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศาล …
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.