So-Khin (โซ-ขิ่น) / Chaweng Chaiyawan / Thailand / 2018 / 0:18:00
So and Khin, a married couple from Myanmar, are employed on a rubber
plantation within southern Thailand. Exploited by their employer due
to the high competition for work in the area, the couple faces the
struggle of overly demanding labour and persecution from unemployed
locals. Their harrowing situation is staged in the midst of political
unrest between the three southern Thai provinces.
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The Mental Traveller / Taiki Sakpisit / Thailand / 2019 / 0:18:00
The Mental Traveller is a poetic reflection on the nature of
remembrance. It navigates through the mental spaces of people consumed
by memories of lost time. The film meditates on the passing of time,
external behaviors, habitual patterns of thought and the sensorial
realities of five mentally disordered men inside the psychiatric ward
in Chanthaburi Province, east of Thailand, in which it is filmed. The
film was conceived from the director’s connections to his parents and
companions as they went through states of sickness, impending death,
dementia, grief, and temporary insanity. At the same time it echoes
upon the turbulent years of political upheavals and repercussions in
Thailand, resulting the nation in a state of delirium, lunacy and
trauma.
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