Oscar bump for "P'Chai My Hero"

Also known as “How to Win at Checkers (Every Time)”, the independent film was recently named as Thailand’s official submission to the 88th Academy Awards.
The debut feature by Korean-American director Josh Kim, “P’Chai My Hero” is adapted from two tales in “Sightseeing”, the short story collection of noted Thai-American author Rattawut Lapcharoensap.
The comedy-drama, set against the backdrop of class conflict in Thai society, centres on 11-year-old Oat, a poor orphan raised by his openly gay older brother Ek and their superstitious aunt. With Ek facing the upcoming military draft lottery, Oat takes a big risk to ensure his brother will not be conscripted.
The film premiered at the Berlin fest earlier this year and has garnered much critical acclaim. It’s at select Major Cineplex branches.

Also showing

The Friese-Greene Club – Another story from the pen of French writer Marcel Pagnol comes to the screen tonight in “La Gloire de mon pre” (“My Father's Glory”), a 1990 drama set in the pre-war French countryside. It’s adapted from the autobiographical novel of Pagnol. Tomorrow’s Irish film is “The Field”, a 1990 drama by Jim Sheridan with Oscar nominee Richard Harris as an elderly sharecropper in a dispute over his rented farmland. Sunday has another fitful collaboration between the great Bette Davis and director Robert Aldrich in “Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte”. Next Wednesday is the food flick “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” while Thursday has an encore screening of “So Very Very”, the indie South Korean romantic comedy about a Korean filmmaker falling in love with a Thai woman. Shows are at 8pm. For more details, see FGC.in.th.

Foreign Correspondents Club of Bangkok – The Contemporary World Film Series heads to Switzerland on Monday night with “Sam”, a brand-new drama about a boy whose parents are divorced. He goes to live temporarily with his estranged alcoholic father. The show is at 7pm. Admission is Bt150 for non-members plus Bt100 for the wine and cheese being laid on by the Swiss embassy. For details, check FCCThai.com.

Alliance Francaise – Couples fall in and out of love over the course of visits to the countryside in “Week-ends” (“Weekends in Normandy”), a 2014 comedy-drama by Anne Villacque that stars Karin Viard, Nomie Lvovsky, Jacques Gamblin and Ulrich Tukur. It screens at 7pm on Wednesday. For more information, see AFThailande.org.