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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.

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.

The director’s highly sylised feature blends elements of Argento, Lynch and ‘Alice In Wonderland’

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.

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

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.