Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Director | Editor | Writer

Apichatpong Weerasethakul (b. 1970, Bangkok) grew up in Khon Kaen, a city in the north east of ...

Born: July 16, 1970

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Filmography

Known For

Memoria Director (2021)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Director (2010)
Cemetery of Splendor Director (2015)
Known For

Syndromes and a Century Director (2006)
Director

Night Colonies (2021)
Memoria (2021)
The Year of the Everlasting Storm (2021)
30/30 Vision: 3 Decades of Strand Releasing (2019)
Blue (2018)
Ten Years Thailand (2018)
Art Through Our Eyes (2016)
Vapour (2015)
Cemetery of Splendor (2015)
Short Plays (2014)
Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)
Monsoon (2012)
La faute à Rousseau (2012)
Cactus River (2012)
Sakda (2012)
Ashes (2012)
Mekong Hotel (2012)
M Hotel (2011)
3.11 Sense of Home (2011)
Quattro Hongkong 2 (2011)
Empire (2010)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Haiku (2009)
Phantoms of Nabua (2009)
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009)
Emerald (2008)
Sud Vikal (2008)
Prosperity for 2008 (2008)
Stories on Human Rights (2008)
Nimit (2007)
Teem (2007)
State of the World (2007)
My Mother's Garden (2007)
The Anthem (2006)
Syndromes and a Century (2006)
Ghost of Asia (2005)
Worldly Desires (2005)
Tropical Malady (2004)
This and a Million More Lights (2003)
Nokia Short (2003)
46664 - 1 Minute of Art to Aids (2003)
The Adventures of Iron Pussy (2003)
Malee and the Boy (2003)
Blissfully Yours (2002)
Masumi Is a PC Operator (2001)
Haunted Houses (2001)
Boys at Noon (2000)
Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
Windows (1999)
Thirdworld (1999)
Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves (1996)
Kitchen and Bedroom (1994)
0016643225059 (1994)
Director

Bullet (1993)
Writer

Memoria (2021)
Blue (2018)
Art Through Our Eyes (2016)
Vapour (2015)
Cemetery of Splendor (2015)
Mekong Hotel (2012)
Empire (2010)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Phantoms of Nabua (2009)
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009)
Sud Vikal (2008)
Nimit (2007)
My Mother's Garden (2007)
The Anthem (2006)
Syndromes and a Century (2006)
Ghost of Asia (2005)
Worldly Desires (2005)
Tropical Malady (2004)
This and a Million More Lights (2003)
Nokia Short (2003)
The Adventures of Iron Pussy (2003)
Blissfully Yours (2002)
I-San Special (2002)
Haunted Houses (2001)
Writer

Windows (1999)
Producer

Memoria (2021)
Railway Sleepers (2016)
Cemetery of Splendor (2015)
Reincarnate (2010)
Empire (2010)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Emerald (2008)
Syndromes and a Century (2006)
Producer

Once Upon a Time (2001)
Editor

Night Colonies (2021)
The Year of the Everlasting Storm (2021)
Blue (2018)
Ten Years Thailand (2018)
Art Through Our Eyes (2016)
Vapour (2015)
Monsoon (2012)
La faute à Rousseau (2012)
Cactus River (2012)
Sakda (2012)
M Hotel (2011)
Phantoms of Nabua (2009)
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009)
Emerald (2008)
Nimit (2007)
Teem (2007)
State of the World (2007)
My Mother's Garden (2007)
The Anthem (2006)
Ghost of Asia (2005)
Worldly Desires (2005)
This and a Million More Lights (2003)
Nokia Short (2003)
Haunted Houses (2001)
Once Upon a Time (2001)
Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
Editor

Windows (1999)
Cinematographer

La faute à Rousseau (2012)
Cactus River (2012)
Sakda (2012)
Mekong Hotel (2012)
M Hotel (2011)
Emerald (2008)
Nimit (2007)
Teem (2007)
State of the World (2007)
My Mother's Garden (2007)
The Anthem (2006)
Ghost of Asia (2005)
Worldly Desires (2005)
This and a Million More Lights (2003)
Nokia Short (2003)
Independence: Around the Film 'Kedma', a Film by Amos Gitai (2002)
Cinematographer

Haunted Houses (2001)
Windows (1999)
Additional Crew

Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)
Thai Aurora at the Horizon (2014)
Camera and Electrical Department

Teem (2007)
Editorial Department

Independence: Around the Film 'Kedma', a Film by Amos Gitai (2002)

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Awards

33 wins & 67 nominations.

Did You Know

Trivia

Worked as an architect and multi-media artist before becoming a filmmaker.

I was very shy, so I didn't really interact well with others. My friends were the kids of doctors, because we all lived in the hospital housing unit. Even now I like hospitals - that sterilised smell, it brings back all these memories. I'd see a lot...