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.

Filmography

• 20269 Temples to Heaven — Producer
• 2026A Flower of Forgetfulness — Director
• 2025Phantoms — Director
• 2024January Stories — Director
• 2024Le bureau qui avait peur — Self, Director, Editor
• 2024The Cowboy — Thanks
• 2023Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933) — Producer
• 2023Solarium — Director
• 2022A Conversation with the Sun — Director, Cinematography
• 2022Action et Réaction — Director
• 2022Durmiente — Director
• 2022For Bruce — Director
• 2022On Blue — Director
• 2022Sleep Song — Director
• 2022Three Rocks — Director
• 2022Walking — Director
• 2021Memoria — Producer, Director, Writer
• 2021Night Colonies — Director
• 2021Sarit — Director
• 2021The Year of the Everlasting Storm — Director
• 2021Uncertain Path
• 2021Waterfall — Director
• 20202020 — Director
• 2020Cinetracts '20 — Director
• 2020Decameron — Director
• 2020Flowers & Banana Wind — Director
• 2020October Rumbles — Director
• 2020Seeing Circles — Director
• 20192019 — Director
• 201930/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing — Director
• 2019Untitled — Director
• 2018Blue — Director, Editor
• 2018Fiction — Director
• 2018Hale County This Morning, This Evening — Creative Consultant
• 2018Home — Director
• 2018Jenjira, Brother Triam — Director
• 2018Sakda, Somchai — Director
• 2018Ten Years Thailand — Screenplay, Editor, Director
• 20172017 — Director
• 2017Memoria, Boy at Sea — Director
• 2017Railway Sleepers — Producer
• 2017async - first light — Director
• 2016Ablaze — Director
• 2016Art Through Our Eyes — Director
• 2016Fan Dog — Director
• 2016Invisibility — Director, Writer
• 2016The Parrot — Thanks
• 2015Cemetery of Splendor — Director, Producer, Writer
• 2015Fever Room — Director
• 2015Rolling — Director, Writer
• 2015Vapour — Editor, Director, Writer
• 2014Father — Director
• 2014Fireworks (Archives) — Director, Camera Operator, Editor
• 2014Fireworks Sketch — Director
• 2014Footprints — Director
• 2014For Monkeys Only — Director
• 2014Short Plays — Director
• 2013Blue Propeller — Director
• 2013Concrete Clouds — Producer
• 2013Dilbar — Director
• 2013One Water — Director
• 2013Venice 70: Future Reloaded — Director
• 201220 Little Films — Director
• 2012Ashes — Writer, Director
• 2012Cactus River — Director, Camera Operator, Editor
• 2012Mekong Hotel — Self, Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
• 2012Sakda (Rousseau) — Director
• 20113.11 A Sense of Home Films — Director
• 2011M Hotel — Director
• 2011Monsoon — Idea, Director, Editor
• 2011Quattro Hong Kong 2 — Director
• 2010Reincarnate — Producer
• 2010Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2009A Dedicated Machine — Director
• 2009A Letter to Uncle Boonmee — Director, Screenplay, Editor
• 2009An Evening Shoot — Director
• 2009Behind the Blur
• 2009Haiku — Director
• 2009I'm Still Breathing — Director
• 2009Making of the Spaceship — Director
• 2009Nabua — Director
• 2009Nabua Song — Director
• 2009Phantoms of Nabua — Director
• 2009Primitive — Director
• 2008Diseases and a Hundred Year Period — Producer
• 2008Mobile Men — Director, Camera Operator, Editor
• 2008Prosperity for 2008 — Director
• 2008Stories on Human Rights — Director
• 2008The Palace (Pipittan Tee Taipei) — Director
• 2008Vampire — Writer, Director
• 2007Emerald — Editor, Director, Producer, Camera Operator
• 2007Luminous People — Director
• 2007Meteorites — Director, Editor
• 2007My Mother’s Garden — Director, Editor, Camera Operator
• 2007Teem — Director
• 2007The State of the World — Director, Director of Photography
• 2006Syndromes and a Century — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2006The Anthem — Director
• 2005Ghost of Asia — Director, Idea, Editor, Camera Operator
• 2005The Desire of the World: Jeonju Digital Project 2005 — Director
• 2005Worldly Desires — Director, Editor, Camera Operator
• 2004TON — Director
• 2004The Adventure of Iron Pussy — Director, Writer
• 2004Tropical Malady — Director, Screenplay
• 2003Nokia Short — Director, Camera Operator, Editor
• 2003This and a Million More Lights — Camera Operator, Director, Editor
• 2002Blissfully Yours — Director, Writer
• 2002I-San Special — Idea
• 2002Second Love in Hong Kong — Director
• 2001Father — Director
• 2001Haunted Houses — Director, Camera Operator, Editor
• 2000Boys at Noon — Director
• 2000Mysterious Object at Noon — Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Editor
• 1999Malee and the Boy — Editor, Director, Camera Operator
• 1999Thirdworld — Director, Camera Operator, Editor
• 1999Windows — Director, Editor, Camera Operator
• 1998Circulation — Runner
• 19940116643225059 — Director, Camera Operator, Editor
• 1994Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves — Director, Editor, Camera Operator
• 1993Bullet — Director
• For Shellie — Director
• Home — Director
• Jenjira's Magnificent Dream — Screenplay, Director, Producer
• Jenjira, Death — Director
• Mi Madre Siempre — Producer
• Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project — Director, Writer

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2018A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul — Self
• 2018Wiara — Self
• 2016Cinema Futures — Self
• 2015The Legend of the Palme d'Or — Self
• 2014Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition - PHOTOPHOBIA — Self
• 2014Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema — Self
• 2013Past Present — Self
• 2012Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer — Self