Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Born: 1970-07-16 in Bangkok, Thailand
Known For: Directing
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 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.
Filmography
2026
- A Flower of Forgetfulness ... (Director)
- 9 Temples to Heaven ... (Producer)
2025
- Phantoms ... (Director)
2024
- The Cowboy ... (Thanks)
- January Stories ... (Director)
- Le bureau qui avait peur as Self
2023
- Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933) ... (Producer)
- Solarium ... (Director)
2022
- For Bruce ... (Director)
- Durmiente ... (Director)
- A Conversation with the Sun ... (Director)
- On Blue ... (Director)
- Sleep Song ... (Director)
- Three Rocks ... (Director)
- Action et Réaction ... (Director)
- Walking ... (Director)
2021
- Memoria ... (Producer)
- The Year of the Everlasting Storm ... (Director)
- Uncertain Path
- Sarit ... (Director)
- Waterfall ... (Director)
- Night Colonies ... (Director)
2020
- Cinetracts '20 ... (Director)
- October Rumbles ... (Director)
- Seeing Circles ... (Director)
- 2020 ... (Director)
- Decameron ... (Director)
- Flowers & Banana Wind ... (Director)
2019
- 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing ... (Director)
- 2019 ... (Director)
- Untitled ... (Director)
2018
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening ... (Creative Consultant)
- A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul as Self
- Ten Years Thailand ... (Screenplay)
- Wiara as Self
- Fiction ... (Director)
- Blue ... (Director)
- Home ... (Director)
- Sakda, Somchai ... (Director)
- Jenjira, Brother Triam ... (Director)
2017
- async - first light ... (Director)
- Railway Sleepers ... (Producer)
- Memoria, Boy at Sea ... (Director)
- 2017 ... (Director)
2016
- The Parrot ... (Thanks)
- Cinema Futures as Self
- Art Through Our Eyes ... (Director)
- Invisibility ... (Director)
- Fan Dog ... (Director)
- Ablaze ... (Director)
2015
- Cemetery of Splendor ... (Director)
- The Legend of the Palme d'Or as Self
- Vapour ... (Editor)
- Fever Room ... (Director)
- Rolling ... (Writer)
2014
- Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema as Self
- Short Plays ... (Director)
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition - PHOTOPHOBIA as Self
- Fireworks (Archives) ... (Director)
- For Monkeys Only ... (Director)
- Fireworks Sketch ... (Director)
- Footprints ... (Director)
- Father ... (Director)
2013
- Venice 70: Future Reloaded ... (Director)
- Past Present as Self
- Concrete Clouds ... (Producer)
- Blue Propeller ... (Director)
- One Water ... (Director)
- Dilbar ... (Director)
2012
- 20 Little Films ... (Director)
- Sakda (Rousseau) ... (Director)
- Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer as Self
- Ashes ... (Director)
- Mekong Hotel as Self
- Cactus River ... (Director)
2011
- 3.11 A Sense of Home Films ... (Director)
- Quattro Hong Kong 2 ... (Director)
- Monsoon ... (Editor)
- M Hotel ... (Director)
2010
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives ... (Director)
- Reincarnate ... (Producer)
2009
- I'm Still Breathing ... (Director)
- Nabua ... (Director)
- A Letter to Uncle Boonmee ... (Director)
- Behind the Blur
- Primitive ... (Director)
- A Dedicated Machine ... (Director)
- Making of the Spaceship ... (Director)
- An Evening Shoot ... (Director)
- Phantoms of Nabua ... (Director)
- Nabua Song ... (Director)
- Haiku ... (Director)
2008
- Stories on Human Rights ... (Director)
- Diseases and a Hundred Year Period ... (Producer)
- The Palace (Pipittan Tee Taipei) ... (Director)
- Prosperity for 2008 ... (Director)
- Mobile Men ... (Director)
- Vampire ... (Director)
2007
- The State of the World ... (Director)
- Luminous People ... (Director)
- My Mother’s Garden ... (Director)
- Meteorites ... (Director)
- Emerald ... (Director)
- Teem ... (Director)
2006
- Syndromes and a Century ... (Director)
- The Anthem ... (Director)
2005
- Ghost of Asia ... (Director)
- Worldly Desires ... (Director)
- The Desire of the World: Jeonju Digital Project 2005 ... (Director)
2004
- Tropical Malady ... (Director)
- The Adventure of Iron Pussy ... (Director)
- TON ... (Director)
2003
- This and a Million More Lights ... (Director)
- Nokia Short ... (Director)
2002
- Blissfully Yours ... (Director)
- Second Love in Hong Kong ... (Director)
- I-San Special ... (Idea)
2001
- Haunted Houses ... (Director)
- Father ... (Director)
2000
- Mysterious Object at Noon ... (Director)
- Boys at Noon ... (Director)
1999
- Malee and the Boy ... (Director)
- Thirdworld
- Windows ... (Director)
1998
- Circulation as Runner
1994
- Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves ... (Director)
- 0116643225059 ... (Director)
1993
- Bullet ... (Director)