Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Known for: Directing
Born: July 16, 1970, Bangkok, Thailand
Movies: 127

Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the prestigious 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or prize; Tropical Malady, which won a jury prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival; Blissfully Yours, which won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival; and Syndromes and a Century, which premiered at the 63rd Venice Film Festival and was the first Thai film to be entered in competition there. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, Weerasethakul has directed several features and dozens of short films. Themes reflected in his films (frequently discussed in interviews) include dreams, nature, sexuality (including his own homosexuality), and Western perceptions of Thailand and Asia, and his films display a preference for unconventional narrative structures (like placing titles/credits at the middle of a film) and for working with non-actors.

Upcoming Apichatpong Weerasethakul Movies

Jenjira's Magnificent Dream

Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

6.6

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

2010

6.0

Memoria

2021

6.0

Cemetery of Splendor

2015

6.7

Tropical Malady

2004

6.8

Syndromes and a Century

2006

6.4

Blissfully Yours

2002

6.5

Mysterious Object at Noon

2000

5.3

Ashes

2012

5.5

Mekong Hotel

2012

6.1

Blue

2018

Filmography

2024	Le bureau qui avait peur	Self
2021	Uncertain Path
2018	A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Self
2018	Wiara	Self
2016	Cinema Futures	Self
2015	The Legend of the Palme d'Or	Self
2014	Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema	Self
2014	Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition - PHOTOPHOBIA	Self
2013	Past Present	Self
2012	Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer	Self
2012	Mekong Hotel	Self
2009	Behind the Blur
1999	Thirdworld
1998	Circulation	Runner

Directing, Writing & Producing

2026	9 Temples to Heaven	Producer
2026	A Flower of Forgetfulness	Director
2025	Phantoms	Director
2024	Le bureau qui avait peur	Director
2024	January Stories	Director
2023	Solarium	Director
2023	Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)	Producer
2022	On Blue	Director
2022	Durmiente	Director
2022	For Bruce	Director
2022	A Conversation with the Sun	Director
2022	Sleep Song	Director
2022	Walking	Director
2022	Action et Réaction	Director
2022	Three Rocks	Director
2021	Memoria	Producer, Director, Writer
2021	The Year of the Everlasting Storm	Director
2021	Night Colonies	Director
2021	Sarit	Director
2021	Waterfall	Director
2020	Flowers & Banana Wind	Director
2020	2020	Director
2020	October Rumbles	Director
2020	Cinetracts '20	Director
2020	Decameron	Director
2020	Seeing Circles	Director
2019	30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing	Director
2019	Untitled	Director
2019	2019	Director
2018	Blue	Director
2018	Fiction	Director
2018	Ten Years Thailand	Screenplay, Director
2018	Sakda, Somchai	Director
2018	Home	Director
2018	Jenjira, Brother Triam	Director
2017	Memoria, Boy at Sea	Director
2017	async - first light	Director
2017	Railway Sleepers	Producer
2017	2017	Director
2016	Ablaze	Director
2016	Art Through Our Eyes	Director
2016	Invisibility	Writer, Director
2016	Fan Dog	Director
2015	Fever Room	Director
2015	Vapour	Director, Writer
2015	Cemetery of Splendor	Director, Producer, Writer
2015	Rolling	Director, Writer
2014	Short Plays	Director
2014	Fireworks (Archives)	Director
2014	Footprints	Director
2014	Fireworks Sketch	Director
2014	Father	Director
2014	For Monkeys Only	Director
2013	Concrete Clouds	Producer
2013	Venice 70: Future Reloaded	Director
2013	One Water	Director
2013	Dilbar	Director
2013	Blue Propeller	Director
2012	Cactus River	Director
2012	Sakda (Rousseau)	Director
2012	Mekong Hotel	Director, Writer, Producer
2012	Ashes	Director, Writer
2012	20 Little Films	Director
2011	Quattro Hong Kong 2	Director
2011	3.11 A Sense of Home Films	Director
2011	Monsoon	Director
2011	M Hotel	Director
2010	Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives	Director, Writer, Producer
2010	Reincarnate	Producer
2009	Phantoms of Nabua	Director
2009	Making of the Spaceship	Director
2009	A Dedicated Machine	Director
2009	Nabua	Director
2009	A Letter to Uncle Boonmee	Director, Screenplay
2009	An Evening Shoot	Director
2009	Haiku	Director
2009	I'm Still Breathing	Director
2009	Nabua Song	Director
2009	Primitive	Director
2008	Stories on Human Rights	Director
2008	Mobile Men	Director
2008	Diseases and a Hundred Year Period	Producer
2008	Vampire	Writer, Director
2008	Prosperity for 2008	Director
2008	The Palace (Pipittan Tee Taipei)	Director
2007	Meteorites	Director
2007	Emerald	Director, Producer
2007	The State of the World	Director
2007	Luminous People	Director
2007	My Mother’s Garden	Director
2007	Teem	Director
2006	The Anthem	Director
2006	Syndromes and a Century	Director, Writer, Producer
2005	Ghost of Asia	Director
2005	Worldly Desires	Director
2005	The Desire of the World: Jeonju Digital Project 2005	Director
2004	Tropical Malady	Screenplay, Director
2004	The Adventure of Iron Pussy	Director, Writer
2004	TON	Director
2003	This and a Million More Lights	Director
2003	Nokia Short	Director
2002	Blissfully Yours	Director, Writer
2002	Second Love in Hong Kong	Director
2001	Haunted Houses	Director
2001	Father	Director
2000	Boys at Noon	Director
2000	Mysterious Object at Noon	Director, Writer
1999	Thirdworld	Director
1999	Windows	Director
1999	Malee and the Boy	Director
1994	Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves	Director
1994	0116643225059	Director
1993	Bullet	Director

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