Feature Films
Feature Films
Familiar touch
Directed by Sarah Friedland
Edited by Aacharee Ungsriwong
USA · 2024 · 90' · English
FAMILIAR TOUCH is a coming of (old) age film. It follows an octogenarian woman's transition to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.
Starring Kathleen Chalfant, Carolyn Michelle, Andy McQueen, with H. Jon Benjamin.
World Premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival (Orizzonti Competition)
Festival Awards:
Best Debut Film — 81st Venice International Film Festival
Best Director (Sarah Friedland) — 81st Venice International Film Festival
Best Actress (Kathleen Chalfant) — 81st Venice International Film Festival
come here (jai jumlong)
Directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong
Edited by Aacharee Ungsriwong
Thailand · 2021 · 69' · Thai
Four friends in their mid-twenties go to Kanchanaburi, west of Thailand, on a trip.
World Premiere at 2021 Berlin International Film Festival
THE MOUNTAINS ARE A DREAM THAT CALL TO ME
Directed by Cedric Cheung-Lau
Edited by Aacharee Ungsriwong and Lee Chatametikool
USA · 2020 · 95' · Nepali and English
On the Annapurna Massif, Tukten, a young Nepali man setting off for a new life as a laborer in Dubai, encounters an older Australian woman who causes him to change course and discover his homeland in a new light.
World Premiere at 2020 Sundance Film Festival
KRABI, 2562
Directed by Ben Rivers and Anocha Suwichakornpong
Edited by Aacharee Ungsriwong
Thailand, UK · 2019 · 94' · Thai
Krabi, 2562 explores the landscape and stories within the community of Krabi, Southern Thailand. A major tourist destination in Thailand, the filmmakers want to capture the town in this specific moment where the pre-historic, the more recent past and the contemporary world collide, sometimes uneasily.
World Premiere at Locarno International Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival
BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK
(Dao KHANONG)
Directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong
Edited by Lee Chatametikool and Aacharee Ungsriwong
Thailand, Netherlands, France, Qatar · 2016 · 105' · Thai
A film director and her muse who was a student activist in the 1970s, a waitress who keeps changing jobs, an actor and an actress, all live loosely connected to each other by almost invisible threads. The narrative sheds its skin several times to reveal layer upon layer of the complexities that make up the characters’ lives.
World Premiere at Locarno International Film Festival (In Competition)
Festival Awards:
Best Film (New Talent Award) — Hong Kong Asian Film Festival
Special Citation — QCinema
Special Mention — Osaka Asian Film Festival
Best Picture — Lucca Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize — First International Film Festival Xining
Awards:
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing — Subhannahong (Thailand National Film Awards)
Best Picture, Best Director — Bangkok Critics Assembly Awards
Best Picture, Best Director — Thai Film Directors Association Awards
Best Picture, Best Director — Kom Chad Luek Awards
Best Director — Starpics Awards
Thai Film of the Year — Bioscope Awards
IN APRIL THE FOLLOWING YEAR, THERE WAS A FIRE
(Sin maysar fon tok ma proi proi)
Directed by Wichanon Somumjarn
Edited by Aacharee Ungsriwong
Thailand, Netherlands · 2012 · 76' · Thai
Nuhm is a foreman in the building industry in Bangkok who has to look for other work. On the eve of the Thai New Year, he returns to his birthplace in the north-east of Thailand (where director Wichanon Somumjarn also grew up). After the wedding of a school friend, Nuhm goes to see his father, but their reunion is difficult. Meeting a young woman he was once in love with brings out other feelings. They talk about Albert Camus' rules for a happy life and Nuhm admits that he would most love to make films.
World Premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam (In Competition)
Festival Awards:
Film Critics Guild’s Prize — 10th International Debut Film Festival “Spirit of Fire”
Special Mention for First Features Competition — 12th Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival
