Thailand

  • Thai Palm d'Or filmmaker to serve as judge for YouTube Play Paid Member

    Once learned, a name like Apichatpong Weerasethakul is hard to forget. So when I saw his name in the Toronto Globe and Mail today, I remembered that we'd profiled the Thai filmmaker a few years back. Winner of the Cannes Film Festival's Jury Prize for Tropical Malady, Apichatpong received high praise when his next film, Syndromes and a Century, was released. As we wrote in 2008: Apichatpong continues this surprising journey with his latest film, Syndromes and a Century, which opened in North American theaters in April after a successful tour on the festival circuit. More »