Bangkok Post » Post Blogs
Monday, August 03, 2009
Thai films in Toronto Film Fest
It's the biggest cine-jamboree in North America: The Toronto Intl Film Festival takes place this year from Sept 10 to 19. The fest screens nearly 500 films every year and functions as a launchpad for a number of Oscar-hopeful American titles. At the same time, it's considered a prestigious festival that chamipons quality, audacious Asian films.
Three Thai films were selected by the Toronto programmers this year: "Ong-bak 2" will get a Midnight Madness slot; "Nymph", by Pen-ek Ratanaruang, lands in the Vision section; and lastly, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 17-minute short film "A Letter to Uncle Boonmee" has a berth in the Wavelenghts section. "Uncle Boonmee" is a part of the multi-media, multi-film, multi-perception project initiated by Thialand's internationally renowned filmmaker/visual artist. Apichatpong is reportedly beginning the shoot of the feature-length version called "Uncle Boonmee Who Recalls His Past Lives" before the end of the year (latest I heard, he was looking for a village in Isaan where the whole film would be set, and I believe he's jsut found it).
Other Asian films in Toronto this year includes, among others, "Karaoke", a languid family drama from Malaysia; "Face", a vibrant tableau shot in Paris by Taiwanese Tsai Ming-liang; "Indepependia", a surreal black-and-white chronicle of the Philippines during the American occupation, by director Raya Martin.
KR
Read comment
Comment feed for this postLeave a comment
Sign in once and access every part of the website at your convenience!
Please log in to our Bangkokpost.com community to post your comments. You can sign in to the community by clicking here.
If you weren't part of the community yet, please sign up here.
By being part of this community you will get all these privileges.
Blogger info
- Name: Kong
- Email: kongr@bangkokpost.co.th
- MSN:
- Entry: 55
