Thai indie filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong won a special mention from the international jury at the 54th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in Germany for her 14-minute short, Jai.-
The short premiered in Rotterdam, as part of Like Real Love, a three-film anthology by Anocha, which I somehow missed in what I thought was an exhaustive survey of the festival's Thai titles. Not! And I'd even been tipped off before. Jai also won a prize in the Asian New Force category at the Independent Short Film and Video Awards in Hong Kong in March.
- Anocha's Graceland was featured at Cannes in 2006. The Oberhausen festival was held from May 1 to 6.
- Test by Duangtat Hansupanusorn -- "Young woman professor who really experts in experiment of microbe living, lives in ordinary life, not dare to try the new things."
- Love Is (Not) Mad by Tosaporn Mongkol --
- "The storytelling from a man about the mental sickness of his mother."
- Observation of the Monk by Pramote Sangsorn -- A Buddhist monk (Wannasak "Kuck" Sirilar) is making his merit-making rounds in the big city. This premiered at the Fifth Bangkok Experimental Film Festival.
- Silencio by Sivaroj Kongsakul -- "A soundman goes in search of that rarest of sounds -- the silence." Premiered in 2007 as part of Short Films Project in Commemoration of the Celebration on the Auspicious Occasion of His Majesty the King's 80th Birthday Anniversary.
(Via Kurzfilmtage - thanks Ann! - and ThaiCinema.org; photo from Observation of the Monk)
Jia also won a prize in the Asian New Force category at the Independent Short Film and Video Awards in Hong Kong in March.
ReplyDeleteOr rather Jai. It premiered in Rotterdam, as part of a three-film anthology by Anocha, which I also missed before.
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