Cast & creator
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Best known for Venice 70: Future Reloaded, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
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.
Also known as: อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล, Aphichatphong Wirasetthakun, Joe, 아피찻퐁 위라세타쿤, 阿彼察邦·韦拉斯哈古
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1993–2026 · acting roles
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Filmography (207)
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Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Director
2013
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Director
2010Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Writer
2010Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Producer
2010
Memoria
Producer
2021Memoria
Director
2021Memoria
Writer
2021
Cemetery of Splendor
Director
2015Cemetery of Splendor
Producer
2015Cemetery of Splendor
Writer
2015
The Cowboy
Thanks
2024
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
Director
2021
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
Director
2011
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Director
2019
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
Self
2015
20 Little Films
Director
2012
Tropical Malady
Director
2004Tropical Malady
Screenplay
2004
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Self
2014
Blissfully Yours
Director
2002Blissfully Yours
Writer
2002
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Creative Consultant
2018
A Flower of Forgetfulness
Director
2026
Sakda (Rousseau)
Director
2012
Stories on Human Rights
Director
2008
Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer
Self
2012
Jenjira's Magnificent Dream
Director
Jenjira's Magnificent Dream
Screenplay
Jenjira's Magnificent Dream
Producer
The Parrot
Thanks
2016
Cinema Futures
Self
2016
9 Temples to Heaven
Producer
2026
Uncertain Path
2021
The State of the World
Director
2007The State of the World
Director of Photography
2007
async - first light
Director
2017
Quattro Hong Kong 2
Director
2011
Syndromes and a Century
Director
2006Syndromes and a Century
Writer
2006Syndromes and a Century
Producer
2006
Luminous People
Director
2007
A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Self
2018
Mysterious Object at Noon
Director
2000Mysterious Object at Noon
Writer
2000Mysterious Object at Noon
Director of Photography
2000Mysterious Object at Noon
Camera Operator
2000Mysterious Object at Noon
Editor
2000
Art Through Our Eyes
Director
2016
January Stories
Director
2024
Ashes
Director
2012Ashes
Writer
2012Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project
Director
Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project
Writer
Short Plays
Director
2014
Ten Years Thailand
Screenplay
2018Ten Years Thailand
Editor
2018Ten Years Thailand
Director
2018
Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)
Producer
2023
Phantoms
Director
2025Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition - PHOTOPHOBIA
Self
2014
Ghost of Asia
Director
2005Ghost of Asia
Editor
2005Ghost of Asia
Camera Operator
2005Ghost of Asia
Idea
2005
For Bruce
Director
2022My Mother’s Garden
Director
2007My Mother’s Garden
Editor
2007My Mother’s Garden
Camera Operator
2007
Reincarnate
Producer
2010
Diseases and a Hundred Year Period
Producer
2008
Past Present
Self
2013Home
Director
Concrete Clouds
Producer
2013
Blue Propeller
Director
2013
I'm Still Breathing
Director
2009Second Love in Hong Kong
Director
2002
Invisibility
Director
2016Invisibility
Writer
2016Meteorites
Director
2007Meteorites
Editor
2007
Wiara
Self
2018
Fireworks (Archives)
Director
2014Fireworks (Archives)
Camera Operator
2014Fireworks (Archives)
Editor
2014
The Adventure of Iron Pussy
Director
2004The Adventure of Iron Pussy
Writer
2004
Mekong Hotel
Self
2012Mekong Hotel
Director
2012Mekong Hotel
Writer
2012Mekong Hotel
Director of Photography
2012Mekong Hotel
Producer
2012
Worldly Desires
Director
2005Worldly Desires
Camera Operator
2005Worldly Desires
Editor
2005Mi Madre Siempre
Producer
Vapour
Editor
2015Vapour
Director
2015Vapour
Writer
2015
Cinetracts '20
Director
2020Nabua
Director
2009The Desire of the World: Jeonju Digital Project 2005
Director
2005
Fiction
Director
2018
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
Director
2009A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
Screenplay
2009A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
Editor
2009
Behind the Blur
2009
Blue
Director
2018Blue
Editor
2018
Durmiente
Director
2022
The Anthem
Director
2006
A Conversation with the Sun
Director
2022A Conversation with the Sun
Cinematography
2022
October Rumbles
Director
2020
One Water
Director
2013
Primitive
Director
2009Home
Director
2018This and a Million More Lights
Director
2003This and a Million More Lights
Camera Operator
2003This and a Million More Lights
Editor
2003
The Palace (Pipittan Tee Taipei)
Director
2008
Railway Sleepers
Producer
2017A Dedicated Machine
Director
2009
Memoria, Boy at Sea
Director
2017Prosperity for 2008
Director
2008
Emerald
Director
2007Emerald
Producer
2007Emerald
Editor
2007Emerald
Camera Operator
2007
On Blue
Director
2022
Monsoon
Editor
2011Monsoon
Idea
2011Monsoon
Director
2011
Mobile Men
Director
2008Mobile Men
Camera Operator
2008Mobile Men
Editor
2008
Le bureau qui avait peur
Self
2024Le bureau qui avait peur
Director
2024Le bureau qui avait peur
Editor
2024Sleep Song
Director
2022
Fever Room
Director
2015Fan Dog
Director
2016Making of the Spaceship
Director
2009
Malee and the Boy
Director
1999Malee and the Boy
Editor
1999Malee and the Boy
Camera Operator
1999Sarit
Director
2021
Cactus River
Director
2012Cactus River
Editor
2012Cactus River
Camera Operator
2012Sakda, Somchai
Director
2018
Nokia Short
Director
2003Nokia Short
Camera Operator
2003Nokia Short
Editor
2003For Monkeys Only
Director
2014
Waterfall
Director
2021
An Evening Shoot
Director
2009Jenjira, Brother Triam
Director
2018
2019
Director
2019Three Rocks
Director
2022
Solarium
Director
2023
Thirdworld
1999Thirdworld
Director
1999Thirdworld
Camera Operator
1999Thirdworld
Editor
1999Vampire
Director
2008Vampire
Writer
2008Boys at Noon
Director
2000Haunted Houses
Director
2001Haunted Houses
Camera Operator
2001Haunted Houses
Editor
2001
Phantoms of Nabua
Director
2009M Hotel
Director
2011I-San Special
Idea
2002Father
Director
2001TON
Director
2004
Fireworks Sketch
Director
2014Seeing Circles
Director
2020
Night Colonies
Director
2021
2017
Director
2017
Dilbar
Director
2013
Footprints
Director
2014
Rolling
Writer
2015Rolling
Director
2015
Teem
Director
2007Nabua Song
Director
2009
2020
Director
2020
Untitled
Director
2019
Ablaze
Director
2016Decameron
Director
2020Action et Réaction
Director
2022
Circulation
Runner
1998Windows
Director
1999Windows
Camera Operator
1999Windows
Editor
1999Jenjira, Death
Director
Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves
Director
1994Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves
Camera Operator
1994Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves
Editor
1994
Haiku
Director
2009Walking
Director
2022
Flowers & Banana Wind
Director
2020For Shellie
Director
Father
Director
2014
Bullet
Director
1993
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19940116643225059
Camera Operator
19940116643225059
Editor
1994