Apichatpong says 'yes' to No'

His choice is the 2012 Chilean political drama “No”, starring Gael Garcํa Bernal as an advertising man who takes up work for the scrappy “no” campaign that ousted General Augusto Pinochet in a 1988 national plebiscite. Pablo Larraํn directs.
“This film makes me realise that we were born to be puppets. Our strings are being pulled by different forces. Even the word ‘democracy’ has its own agenda. By the time we grow up and see the strings, we cannot cut them. All we can do is smile as the scripts tell us to. So much so that sometimes we think that our freedom and happiness are real,” Apichatpong says in translated remarks on the BACC website.
He and film critic Kong Rithdee will host a discussion following the screening. It’s a free event, with seats available on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration opens at 4.30pm with the screening is at 5.30 in the 220-seat fifth-floor auditorium.
For more details, check www.BACC.or.th/

Also showing

Sayonara Setsuko: A Tribute to Setsuko Hara – In the run-up to next weekend’s Japanese Film Festival in Bangkok, Filmvirus, the Japan Foundation and the Reading Room join on Sunday for a screening of three classics: 1946’s “No Regrets for Our Youth” by Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu’s “Late Spring” from 1949 and Mikio Naruse’s “Repast” from 1951. The show starts at 1pm at the Reading Room on Silom Soi 19 in Bangkok.

German Open Air Cinema – An ex-con thief tries to find loot that’s buried under a school in the comedy “Suck Me Shakespeer”, which closes out the annual outdoor screening series. It’s at 7.30pm on Tuesday at the Goethe-Institut on Sathorn Soi 1 in Bangkok.

Correction
“Open the pod-bay doors” (B15, January 22) incorrectly stated that HAL Film released “Tangerine”. In fact, “Tangerine” was released in Thailand by the Documentary Club.