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
2025
- Phantoms ... (Director)
- Recipes for Phantoms ... (Director)
2024
- January Stories (version Harinezumi) ... (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
- Three Rocks ... (Director)
- Durmiente ... (Director)
- Walking ... (Director)
- Sleep Song ... (Director)
- For Bruce ... (Director)
- A Conversation with the Sun (Installation) ... (Director)
- Action et Réaction ... (Director)
- On Blue ... (Director)
2021
- Uncertain Path
- Waterfall ... (Director)
- Night Colonies ... (Director)
- The Year of the Everlasting Storm ... (Director)
- Memoria ... (Producer)
2020
- Cinetracts '20 ... (Director)
- Seeing Circles ... (Director)
- October Rumbles ... (Director)
- 2020 ... (Director)
- Decameron ... (Director)
- Flowers & Banana Wind ... (Director)
2019
- Untitled ... (Director)
- 2019 ... (Director)
- 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing ... (Director)
2018
- Ten Years Thailand ... (Screenplay)
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening ... (Creative Consultant)
- Wiara as Himself
- Blue ... (Director)
- Jenjira, Brother Triam ... (Director)
- Home ... (Director)
- A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul as Self
- Sakda, Somchai ... (Director)
- Fiction ... (Director)
2017
- Railway Sleepers ... (Producer)
- async - first light ... (Director)
- 2017 ... (Director)
- Memoria, Boy at Sea ... (Director)
2016
- Cinema Futures as Self
- The Parrot (Papagajka) ... (Thanks)
- Invisibility ... (Director)
- Art Through Our Eyes ... (Director)
- Fan Dog ... (Director)
- Ablaze ... (Director)
2015
- Cemetery of Splendor ... (Director)
- Fever Room ... (Director)
- Vapour ... (Editor)
- The Legend of the Palme d'Or as Self
- Rolling ... (Director)
2014
- Father ... (Director)
- Short Plays ... (Director)
- Fireworks Sketch ... (Director)
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition - PHOTOPHOBIA as Self
- For Monkeys Only ... (Director)
- Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema as Self
- Footprints ... (Director)
- Fireworks (Archives) ... (Director)
2013
- One Water ... (Director)
- Concrete Clouds ... (Producer)
- Dilbar ... (Director)
- Blue Propeller ... (Director)
- Past Present as Self
- Venice 70: Future Reloaded ... (Director)
- Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded, Apichatpong Weerasethakul ... (Director)
2012
- Ashes ... (Writer)
- Sakda (Rousseau) ... (Director)
- Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer as Himself
- Mekong Hotel as Self
- 20 Little Films ... (Director)
- Cactus River ... (Director)
2011
- M Hotel ... (Director)
- 3.11 A Sense of Home Films ... (Director)
- Trailer for CinDi ... (Director)
- Quattro Hong Kong 2 ... (Director)
- Monsoon ... (Idea)
2010
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives ... (Director)
- Empire ... (Director)
- Reincarnate ... (Producer)
2009
- Nabua Song ... (Director)
- Haiku ... (Director)
- Nabua ... (Director)
- Primitive ... (Director)
- A Letter to Uncle Boonmee ... (Director)
- Behind the Blur
- A Dedicated Machine ... (Director)
- Phantoms of Nabua ... (Director)
- An Evening Shoot ... (Director)
- Making of the Spaceship ... (Director)
- I'm Still Breathing ... (Director)
2008
- Vampire ... (Writer)
- Diseases and a Hundred Year Period ... (Producer)
- Stories on Human Rights ... (Director)
- The Palace (Pipittan Tee Taipei) ... (Director)
- Prosperity for 2008 ... (Director)
- Mobile Men ... (Director)
2007
- Emerald ... (Editor)
- Teem ... (Director)
- Meteorites ... (Director)
- The State of the World ... (Director)
- My Mother’s Garden ... (Director)
- Luminous People ... (Director)
2006
- Syndromes and a Century ... (Director)
- The Anthem ... (Director)
2005
- Ghost of Asia ... (Director)
- The Desire of the World: Jeonju Digital Project 2005 ... (Director)
- Worldly Desires ... (Director)
2004
- Tropical Malady ... (Director)
- TON ... (Director)
- The Adventure of Iron Pussy ... (Director)
2003
- Nokia Short ... (Director)
- This and a Million More Lights ... (Camera Operator)
2002
- Blissfully Yours ... (Director)
- I-San Special ... (Idea)
- Second Love in Hong Kong ... (Director)
2001
- Father ... (Director)
- Haunted Houses ... (Director)
2000
- Mysterious Object at Noon ... (Director)
- Boys at Noon ... (Director)
1999
- Windows ... (Director)
- Thirdworld
- Malee and the Boy ... (Editor)
1998
- Circulation as Runner
1995
- Kulturzeit as self
1994
- Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves ... (Director)
- 0116643225059 ... (Director)
1993
- Bullet ... (Director)