'Carried' from Busan to Bangkok
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The Thai film in this year's New Currents competition at the Busan International Film Festival is "I Carried You Home" ("Padang Besar"), the debut feature by Tongpong Chantarangkul.
It’s the story of a pair of estranged sisters who are reunited to bring their dead mother’s corpse from Bangkok for burial in their hometown of Padang Besar, on the southern border in Songkhla.
Along the way, the siblings iron out their differences as younger Pann (Apinya Sakuljaroensuk) learns why big sister Pinn (Akhamsiri Suwanasuk) left the family for Singapore.
Tongpong, schooled at Rangsit University and London Film School, previously directed the 30-minute short “Wings of Blue Angels”.
After Busan, “I Carried You Home” comes home to the 9th World Film Festival of Bangkok, opening the fest on November 4.
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