Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Year: 2015

In Khon Kaen a lonesome middle-aged housewife tends a soldier with sleeping sickness and falls into a hallucination that triggers strange dreams, phantoms, and romance.<br /> "I write this film as a rumination on Thailand, a feverish nation. It will be the first film that takes place entirely in my hometown, Khon Kaen. It’s also a very personal portrait of the places that have latched onto me like parasites - the elementary school, the hospital, the library, the lake. Like the sleepers in this film, I shun the malady of reality, and together we take refuge in dreams of forever." Apichatpong Weerasethakul<br /> Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Official Competition

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Year: 2010

A personal letter describing Weerasethakul's Nabua to Uncle Boonmee. A slowly moving camera glides through the deserted houses. The voices of three young men are heard. As evening approaches the sky turns dark.

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Year: 2010

A fluorescent tube illuminates an empty playground in the evening. Nearby a flash of light is projected on a makeshift screen. This outdoor movie is a portrait of a village repeatedly struck by lightning. As night falls, the silhouette figures of young men emerge, they are playing with a football raging with fire. They take turns kicking the ball which leaves illuminated trails in the grass. The lightning on the screen flickers amid the fire and the smoke rising from the ground. The game intensifies with each kick that sends the fireball soaring into the air. Finally the teens burn the screen and crowd around it to witness the blazing canvas, behind which is revealed the ghostly white beam of a projector.<br />  <br /> Phantoms of Nabua is part of the multi-platform PRIMITIVE project which focuses on a concept of remembrance and extinction and is set in the northeast of Thailand.