Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1970-07-16 (55 years old)

Place of Birth

Bangkok, Thailand

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Biography

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 di...

Production

2010

Empire

as Director

2004

Tropical Malady

as Director

2004

Tropical Malady

as Screenplay

2002

Blissfully Yours

as Director

2009

2021

Memoria

as Producer

2009

Haiku

as Director

2008

1999

Thirdworld

as Director

2005

Worldly Desires

as Director

2012

Mekong Hotel

as Director

2012

Mekong Hotel

as Writer

2007

2012

Ashes

as Writer

2012

Ashes

as Director

2011

M Hotel

as Director

2008

Mobile Men

as Director

2007

Luminous People

as Director

2012

Cactus River

as Director

2008

Vampire

as Writer

2008

Vampire

as Director

2006

The Anthem

as Director

2019

Untitled

as Director

2009

2012

Sakda (Rousseau)

as Director

2015

Vapour

as Editor

2018

Ten Years Thailand

as Screenplay

2018

2015

2019

2019

as Director

2015

Rolling

as Director

2015

Rolling

as Writer

2015

-

Jenjira, Death

as Director

-

Home

as Director

2020

Decameron

as Director

-

Sarit

as Director

2018

Sakda, Somchai

as Director

2022

Durmiente

as Director

2000

Mysterious Object at Noon

as Director of Photography

2021

Night Colonies

as Director

2007

Emerald

as Editor

2007

Emerald

as Director

2007

Emerald

as Producer

2018

Home

as Director

2014

2014

Fireworks (Archives)

as Camera Operator

2011

2015

Vapour

as Director

2001

Father

as Director

2016

Fan Dog

as Director

1994

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as Director

2007

2008

Mobile Men

as Camera Operator

1994

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as Camera Operator

1994

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as Editor

2012

Cactus River

as Camera Operator

2005

Ghost of Asia

as Director

1999

2014

Footprints

as Director

2012

Cactus River

as Editor

2001

Haunted Houses

as Director

2001

Haunted Houses

as Camera Operator

2001

2005

2000

Mysterious Object at Noon

as Camera Operator

1999

Thirdworld

as Camera Operator

2003

2007

Emerald

as Camera Operator

2005

2008

Mobile Men

as Editor

2007

My Mother’s Garden

as Camera Operator

1999

Windows

as Director

2002

2007

Meteorites

as Director

2005

Ghost of Asia

as Editor

1999

Windows

as Editor

1999

1999

Thirdworld

as Editor

2005

Worldly Desires

as Camera Operator

2011

Monsoon

as Idea

1999

Malee and the Boy

as Camera Operator

1999

Windows

as Camera Operator

2013

La Punta

as Director

2011

Monsoon

as Director

2005

Ghost of Asia

as Camera Operator

2011

Monsoon

as Editor

2022

On Blue

as Director

2011

2022

For Bruce

as Director

2002

2016

-

For Shellie

as Director

2015

Fever Room

as Director

2012

20 Little Films

as Director

2016

Invisibility

as Director

2016

Invisibility

as Writer

2017

Railway Sleepers

as Producer

2007

Meteorites

as Editor

2009

2009

An Evening Shoot

as Director

2018

2016

Ablaze

as Director

2017

2009

2009

Nabua

as Director

2021

Memoria

as Director

2021

Memoria

as Writer

2014

Short Plays

as Director

2018

2018

Blue

as Director

2018

Blue

as Editor

2013

Dilbar

as Director

-

Mi Madre Siempre

as Producer

2018

1993

Bullet

as Director

2014

Fireworks Sketch

as Director

2007

Teem

as Director

2004

TON

as Director

2013

One Water

as Director

2013

Blue Propeller

as Director

2017

2014

For Monkeys Only

as Director

2014

Father

as Director

2009

Nabua Song

as Director

2013

Concrete Clouds

as Producer

2009

Primitive

as Director

2018

Fiction

as Director

2000

Boys at Noon

as Director

2020

Cinetracts '20

as Director

2020

October Rumbles

as Director

2015

Vapour

as Writer

2010

Reincarnate

as Producer

2020

2020

2020

as Director

2003

Nokia Short

as Director

2003

Nokia Short

as Camera Operator

2003

Nokia Short

as Editor

2022

Sleep Song

as Director

2022

Walking

as Director

2022

2023

Solarium

as Director

2022

Three Rocks

as Director

2020

Seeing Circles

as Director

2012

Mekong Hotel

as Director of Photography

2012

Mekong Hotel

as Producer

2017

2017

as Director

2021

Waterfall

as Director

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