Expressions freely flowing at Thai Short
EXPRESS PACKAGES of shorts from Singapore plus broadly appealing International Competition entries are on tap today at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre as the 19th Thai Short Film and Video Festival rolls into its final weekend.
Tomorrow, you have to make the tough choice to see the finalist Thai entries in the top-tier RD Pestonji Award competition (named for Thailand’s first auteur) and International Competition programmes in the fifth-floor auditorium, or all the S-Express entries in one go in the fourth-floor screening room.
The fest wraps up on Sunday, which starts with a morning block of Thai animation, all competing for the Payut Ngaokrachang Award, named after Thailand’s pioneering animator.
Admission is free. Screenings start at 5.30pm today and at 11am tomorrow and Sunday. For more details, check www.Facebook.com/|ThaiShortFilmVideoFestival.
Also showing
The Friese-Greene Club – Tonight, it’s Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Dreamers”, a controversial drama from 2003 that stars Michael Pitt as an American exchange student in Paris in 1968. Against the backdrop of riots, he meets a brother and sister (Louis Garrel and Eva Green) and the three share a bond of love. Tomorrow has Terry Gilliam’s solo directorial feature effort, 1977’s “Jabberwocky”, which established his distinctive, far-out style. On Sunday, Frank Sinatra stars in the dark drug-addiction drama “The Man with the Golden Arm”, which is directed by Otto Preminger and has an iconic poster designed by Saul Bass. The month starts winding down next Wednesday, with one more film from French actress-director Catherine Breillat, 1999’s “Romance”. And next Thursday is a special event, a best-of selection from last year’s Shnit International Short Film Festival, in a run-up to this year’s event, which is set for October 7 to 18. Shows are at 8pm. For more details, check FGC.in.th.
Alliance Francaise – Secrets among a close-knit group of friends and family come spilling out in the 2012 comedy-drama “Amitis sinceres”. It screens at 7pm on Wednesday. For details, check AFThailande.org.
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand – A long-standing feud between Brazilian farming families boils over in “Behind the Sun” (“Abril Despedaado”), a 2001 drama by Walter Salles (“The Motorcycle Diaries”), screening at 7pm on Thursday. Part of the FCCT’s Contemporary World Film Series, the movie is courtesy of the embassy of Brazil. Admission is Bt150 for non-members. For details, check FCCThai.com.
Bangkok Asean Film Festival – Details are only beginning to emerge about yet another free film fest, which the Culture Ministry has set for next Thursday to August 30 at SF World Cinema. It will have entries from all 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, with Cambodia’s “The Last Reel” and Vietnam’s “Big Father, Small Father and the Other Stories” being among the notable titles. For more details, keep an eye on SFCinemaCity.com
