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