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Low-budget Thai film wins big at Asia's top fest

Published: 14 Oct 2012 at 01.19
Online news: Film

BUSAN : A novice Thai film-maker’s low-budget, experimental production shared top honours at Asia’s largest film festival, which drew to a close yesterday.

First-time director Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit wais the presenter after winning the top award at the Busan International Film Festival in Korea on Saturday. (AFP photo)

Jurors for the New Currents award at South Korea’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) described firsttime Thai director Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s 36 as ‘‘breathtaking’’ while praising the ‘‘extraordinary sympathy’’ co-winner director Maryam Najafi drew from her audience throughout her entry Kayan.

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OldThaiHand
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Discussion 4 : 14 Oct 2012 at 11.424
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Challenge a Thai about Thai culture and more often than not, they'll turn into an enraged jingoistic nazi. Yet, Thais routinely eschew the cultural achievements of truly talented Thais for sub-standard drivel from both Thailand and other countries; Korea being the current flavour of the month.

Another example of this is the film Fah Talai Jone, which died at the local cinemas after 1 week, but went onto to win a major award at the Cannes Film Festival under the title, Tears of the Black Tiger.
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Discussion 3 : 14 Oct 2012 at 09.093
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'"never included an unnecessary word," they said in a statement.' How did they know that unless they speak Thai?
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Fail to see the irony, movies that tend to get the accolades at film festivals are very rarely popular movies and they only cater to a very limited audience that appreciate special qualities....exactly as with book prices, the decorated books are very rarely best sellers either.
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Discussion 1 : 14 Oct 2012 at 04.231
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Sometime we look very far to see someting good but the thruth is that very often you have the best just beside you and you dont see it ..thats what hapend to this Thai director ..he is from Thailand but nobody knew he was there ...congratulation to this young man ..he is the best and now everybody Thailand knows him
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