Directing · b. 1970 · Bangkok, Thailand

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Biography

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...

Directed
Phantoms 2025 January Stories 2024 Le bureau qui avait peur 2024 Solarium 2023 Durmiente 2022 A Conversation with the Sun (Installation) 2022 On Blue 2022 For Bruce 2022 Sleep Song 2022 Walking 2022 Action et Réaction 2022 Three Rocks 2022 The Year of the Everlasting Storm 2021 Night Colonies 2021 Memoria 2021 Waterfall 2021 Decameron 2020 Cinetracts '20 2020 October Rumbles 2020 Flowers & Banana Wind 2020 2020 2020 Seeing Circles 2020 Untitled 2019 2019 2019 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing 2019 Sakda, Somchai 2018 Home 2018 Ten Years Thailand 2018 Blue 2018 Jenjira, Brother Triam 2018 Fiction 2018 async - first light 2017 Memoria, Boy at Sea 2017 2017 2017 Fan Dog 2016 Art Through Our Eyes 2016 Invisibility 2016 Ablaze 2016 Cemetery of Splendor 2015 Rolling 2015 Vapour 2015 Fever Room 2015 Fireworks (Archives) 2014 Footprints 2014 Short Plays 2014 Fireworks Sketch 2014 For Monkeys Only 2014 Father 2014 Venice 70: Future Reloaded 2013 Dilbar 2013 One Water 2013 Blue Propeller 2013 Mekong Hotel 2012 Ashes 2012 Cactus River 2012 Sakda (Rousseau) 2012 20 Little Films 2012 M Hotel 2011 Monsoon 2011 3.11 A Sense of Home Films 2011 Quattro Hong Kong 2 2011 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 2010 Empire 2010 Phantoms of Nabua 2009 A Letter to Uncle Boonmee 2009 Haiku 2009 I'm Still Breathing 2009 An Evening Shoot 2009 A Dedicated Machine 2009 Making of the Spaceship 2009 Nabua 2009 Nabua Song 2009 Primitive 2009 Prosperity for 2008 2008 Mobile Men 2008 Vampire 2008 Stories on Human Rights 2008 The Palace (Pipittan Tee Taipei) 2008 The State of the World 2007 Luminous People 2007 Emerald 2007 My Mother’s Garden 2007 Meteorites 2007 Teem 2007 Syndromes and a Century 2006 The Anthem 2006 Worldly Desires 2005 Ghost of Asia 2005 The Desire of the World: Jeonju Digital Project 2005 2005 Tropical Malady 2004 The Adventure of Iron Pussy 2004 TON 2004 This and a Million More Lights 2003 Nokia Short 2003 Blissfully Yours 2002 Second Love in Hong Kong 2002 Father 2001 Haunted Houses 2001 Mysterious Object at Noon 2000 Boys at Noon 2000 Thirdworld 1999 Windows 1999 Malee and the Boy 1999 0116643225059 1994 Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves 1994 Bullet 1993
Cinematography
Mekong Hotel 2012 The State of the World 2007 Mysterious Object at Noon 2000
Acting
Uncertain Path 2021 A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul Self 2018 Wiara Self 2018 Cinema Futures Self 2016 The Legend of the Palme d'Or Self 2015 Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema Self 2014 Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition - PHOTOPHOBIA Self 2014 Past Present Self 2013 Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer Self 2012 Behind the Blur 2009 Circulation Runner 1998
Other Credits
The Cowboy Thanks 2024 Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933) Producer 2023 Hale County This Morning, This Evening Creative Consultant 2018 Railway Sleepers Producer 2017 The Parrot Thanks 2016 Concrete Clouds Producer 2013 Reincarnate Producer 2010 Diseases and a Hundred Year Period Producer 2008 I-San Special Idea 2002
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