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