FRIDAY, March 29, 2024
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Thai films in the forecast

Thai films in the forecast

Two Thai films are in the Busan International Film Festival's New Currents competition - Lee Chatametikool's "Concrete Clouds", set during the 1997 financial meltdown, and "The Isthmus", a drama by Peerachai Kerdsint and Sopawan Boonnimitra.

“Concrete Clouds”, the debut feature by Lee, a prominent film editor and post-production specialist, stars Ananda Everingham. “The Isthmus” is about an eight-year-old girl who is thought to be possessed by the spirit of her family’s dead Myanmar-immigrant maid.
Other Thai entries include the smash-hit ghost comedy “Pee Mak Phrakhanong” and the teen horror “Last Summer” (“Rue Doo Ron Nan Chan Tai”) in the Midnight Passion programme, and Saranyoo Jiralak’s family drama “Together” in the Window on Asian Cinema lineup.
Also in the Window is “Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy”, the latest feature by last year’s New Currents winner, Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, which debuted at last month’s Venice fest.
Aditya Assarat is among six directors taking part in “Letters from the South”, an omnibus about the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia.
There’s also Australia’s entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the Lao-Isaan family tale “The Rocket”, directed by Kim Mordaunt. It’s been a big winner on the festival circuit this year, taking the Crystal Bear in Berlin.
And in the hunt for funds from the festival’s Asian Project Market is veteran producer-director Pimpaka Towira. She’s seeking to expand her short Myanmar-border drama “Malaria and Mosquitos” into a feature.

 

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