Thursday, January 15, 2004

Thai films around the world

While the Bangkok International Film Festival brings in films from other countries, film festivals in other countries are clamoring to get Thai films. So there's a chance one will be playing somewhere near you!

According to today's Unedited Cuts column by Ken Ywin in The Nation, Mekhong Full Moon Party has played at over 20 film festivals. One Night Husband has been shown at 12 film festivals.

Beautiful Boxer and The Adventure of Iron Pussy (not released in Thailand as yet) have been invited to screen at the Berlin International Film Festival from February 5 to 15. Fan Chan will also be at Berlin.

Festivals also are lining up for The Judgement, directed by Pantham Thongsang. I'm not familiar with the film, but Ken says it "harks back to the days of classic Thai cinema when it dealt with complicated themes against the backdrop of simple Thai settings." Whatever that means.

Ken's weekly column, by the way, is a surprising bit of inside baseball on the Thai movie industry. He also includes bits about major Hollywood players coming to Thailand to make movies. So expect his latest gossip on such characters as Steven Seagal, Oliver Stone and others.

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