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‘Drag Race’ Producer World of Wonder, N8 Unveil Trailer for Pangina Heals Documentary ‘Heals’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Bangkok-based production company N8 and “Drag Race” producer World of Wonder have released the official trailer for “Heals,” a feature documentary on Thai drag star Pangina Heals, directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Pailin Wedel.
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Pen-Ek Ratanaruang On Morte Cucina: Cooking With Time and Desire
At this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival, “Morte Cucina” arrives as the latest creation from Thai director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, a filmmaker long celebrated in international circles yet curiously detached from his own domestic industry. In a candid conversation, he traces the long road that led from lockdown isolation to a story where food can comfort, heal, and quietly kill over fifteen years.
‘ผีใช้ได้ค่ะ’ คุยกับผู้กำกับ ‘รัชฏ์ภูมิ บุญบัญชาโชค’ ผู้พา ‘ผีไทยในเครื่องดูดฝุ่น’ ไปเปิดตัวที่คานส์
วันที่ 17 พฤษภาคม 2568 รัชฏ์ภูมิ บุญบัญชาโชค ผู้กำกับภาพยนตร์ พร้อมนักแสดงและโปรดิวเซอร์ เปิดตัวหนังไทยหนึ่งเดียวที่ได้รับเลือกให้ฉายที่เทศกาลภาพยนตร์เมืองคานส์ ‘ผีใช้ได้ค่ะ’
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‘A Useful Ghost’ Takes Top Prize at Cannes Critics’ Week
Thai writer-director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s feature debut centers on a married couple where the wife dies of a respiratory illness and returns to a grieving husband as a vacuum cleaner.
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‘I Live Here Now’ review: Julie Pacino’s vividly realised debut plays out in remote California motel
The director’s highly sylised feature blends elements of Argento, Lynch and ‘Alice In Wonderland’
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‘A Useful Ghost’ Review: Machine Yearning
Fearlessly original and frequently hilarious, “A Useful Ghost” almost beggars description. Beginning as one thing and ending as quite another, this dazzling first feature from the Thai filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke uses the frame of a sad-sweet sex comedy to weave together political allegory, supernatural mystery and more than one tender love story.
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13 Best Movies at Cannes 2025
From a breezy look back at a groundbreaking classic to funhouse-mirror portraits of our politically fractured moment — our picks for the film festival’s highlights
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Julie Pacino on Exploring Female Trauma in Lynchian Feature Directorial Debut ‘I Live Here Now’
The film from Al Pacino's daughter, starring Lucy Fry, Matt Rife and Madeline Brewer, world premieres at Fantasia in Montreal before screening at the Locarno Film Festival.
Sales Agent EST N8 Revs Expansion Into Asia Releasing With ‘Ferrari’ Theatrical Outings (EXCLUSIVE)
Los Angeles- and Bangkok-based film sales joint venture EST N8 is expanding into theatrical distribution in parts of Southeast Asia.
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Democracy dawns in the gently funny ‘The Monk and the Gun,’ set in a changing Bhutan
For the unsuspecting, a title like “The Monk and the Gun” lands like a promise: Do you prepare for a mythic showdown or a mystic parable? That was undoubtedly what Bhutanese filmmaker Pawo Choyning Dorji had in mind when he winked this second feature into existence, teasing us with signposts of violence and wisdom before winning us over with a minimalist, serenely offbeat comedy.