After screenings in August last year, "Voices Of The New Gen", four short films by university students, are once again revisiting the gamut of social and political issues of 2022 on Netflix.
'Voices Of The New Gen' revisits Thai politics of 2022. (Photo: Major Cineplex)
Compiled by the Thai Film Director Association, the four crime dramas and thrillers are part of the alternative film project sponsored by the National Federation of Motion Pictures and Contents Associations and the Ministry of Culture.
"Voices Of The New Gen" dissects the backbone of Thai society, addressing violations of human rights in barracks, the resolution of the political crisis through violence versus non-violence, the government's cover-up of the pandemic, as well as inequality.
After A Long Walk, He Stands Still is directed by Kantapat Putthasuwan of Silpakorn University. Thong is a conscript in an army camp in which hierarchy and violence are characteristic. He must choose between friendship and survival.
The Reproduction Of A Catastrophic Reminiscence is directed by Kulapat Aimmanoj. The debate over the violent or non-violent solutions to the political crisis is encapsulated by an encounter between Non, an ex-activist, and Mee, an ex-collaborator who is now a leader, in a protest rally on a furious and unpredictable night.
Bangkok Tradition is directed by Thamuya Thasananukulkij of Thammasat University. In the heyday of print media in the 1990s, Dararat, a staffer for a newspaper, is aware that she will be laid off. She decides to investigate a pandemic in the hope of avoiding redundancy without knowing that dark influence awaits her.
Fatherland is directed by Panya Zhu of Bangkok University. Fei, a descendant of a Chinese-Thai family, lives with his mother and a bedridden grandfather in their old shophouse as they face eviction. His father disappears during the political conflict of 2010, but his mother remains hopeful that her husband will return home.
