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
- 9 Temples to Heaven ... (Producer)
- A Flower of Forgetfulness ... (Director)
2025
- Phantoms ... (Director)
2024
- January Stories ... (Director)
- The Cowboy ... (Thanks)
- 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
- Sleep Song ... (Director)
- Action et Réaction ... (Director)
- Walking ... (Director)
- Three Rocks ... (Director)
- Durmiente ... (Director)
- For Bruce ... (Director)
- On Blue ... (Director)
- A Conversation with the Sun (Installation) ... (Director)
2021
- Memoria ... (Producer)
- The Year of the Everlasting Storm ... (Director)
- Sarit ... (Director)
- Uncertain Path
- Waterfall ... (Director)
- Night Colonies ... (Director)
2020
- Cinetracts '20 ... (Director)
- Decameron ... (Director)
- 2020 ... (Director)
- Seeing Circles ... (Director)
- Flowers & Banana Wind ... (Director)
- October Rumbles ... (Director)
2019
- 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing ... (Director)
- Untitled ... (Director)
- 2019 ... (Director)
2018
- Ten Years Thailand ... (Screenplay)
- Wiara as Self
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening ... (Creative Consultant)
- Fiction ... (Director)
- Jenjira, Brother Triam ... (Director)
- A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul as Self
- Blue ... (Director)
- Sakda, Somchai ... (Director)
- Home ... (Director)
2017
- async - first light ... (Director)
- Railway Sleepers ... (Producer)
- Memoria, Boy at Sea ... (Director)
- 2017 ... (Director)
2016
- Cinema Futures as Self
- The Parrot ... (Thanks)
- Art Through Our Eyes ... (Director)
- Ablaze ... (Director)
- Invisibility ... (Writer)
- Fan Dog ... (Director)
2015
- Cemetery of Splendor ... (Director)
- The Legend of the Palme d'Or as Self
- Vapour ... (Editor)
- Fever Room ... (Director)
- Rolling ... (Director)
2014
- Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema as Self
- Fireworks (Archives) ... (Director)
- Short Plays ... (Director)
- Footprints ... (Director)
- Father ... (Director)
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition - PHOTOPHOBIA as Self
- Fireworks Sketch ... (Director)
- For Monkeys Only ... (Director)
2013
- Venice 70: Future Reloaded ... (Director)
- Past Present as Self
- Concrete Clouds ... (Producer)
- One Water ... (Director)
- Blue Propeller ... (Director)
- Dilbar ... (Director)
2012
- Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer as Self
- Mekong Hotel as Self
- 20 Little Films ... (Director)
- Ashes ... (Director)
- Sakda (Rousseau) ... (Director)
- 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)
- Empire ... (Director)
2009
- Behind the Blur
- Primitive ... (Director)
- A Letter to Uncle Boonmee ... (Director)
- An Evening Shoot ... (Director)
- I'm Still Breathing ... (Director)
- Nabua Song ... (Director)
- Haiku ... (Director)
- A Dedicated Machine ... (Director)
- Phantoms of Nabua ... (Director)
- Nabua ... (Director)
- Making of the Spaceship ... (Director)
2008
- Stories on Human Rights ... (Director)
- Mobile Men ... (Director)
- The Palace (Pipittan Tee Taipei) ... (Director)
- Vampire ... (Writer)
- Diseases and a Hundred Year Period ... (Producer)
- Prosperity for 2008 ... (Director)
2007
- Emerald ... (Director)
- My Mother’s Garden ... (Director)
- The State of the World ... (Director)
- Luminous People ... (Director)
- Meteorites ... (Director)
- Teem ... (Director)
2006
- Syndromes and a Century ... (Director)
- The Anthem ... (Director)
2005
- Worldly Desires ... (Director)
- Ghost of Asia ... (Editor)
- The Desire of the World: Jeonju Digital Project 2005 ... (Director)
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
- Malee and the Boy ... (Director)
- Thirdworld
- Windows ... (Camera Operator)
1998
- Circulation as Runner
1995
- Kulturzeit as self
1994
- 0116643225059 ... (Camera Operator)
- Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves ... (Director)
1993
- Bullet ... (Director)