Year: 2010
Duration: 102'
Ananda, whose father is Australian and whose mother is Thai, has finished his studies abroad and now, undecided as to which profession to pursue, he returns home to Thailand and begins acting in a film. During the shooting in a small seaside village, he is joined by his Australian girlfriend, Zoe, but the cultural differences between the two continents undermine their relationship. A few months later, Ananda returns to Bangkok. In the meantime, he has begun a relationship with May, a member of the film crew. But this time it is the great distance from her oriental roots that compromises the relationship. “Nowadays, with low cost airlines and internet, new tribes have sprouted up around the world that are not defined by national borders but by education, taste and opportunity. Things change quickly, so this film should be a snapshot of the way things are now. Like a Polaroid, as soon as you take it, it’s already fading into the past. [...] I feel it: old things dying away, new things being formed. So I want to express these changes in the spaces around me.”
Biography
film director
Aditya Assarat
Aditya Assarat (Bangkok, Thailand) moved to the United States as a boy and studied production at the University of Southern California. His graduating short film, Motorcycle (2000), was the first Thai film to compete at the festivals of Clermont-Ferrand, Tampere, Oberhausen and at Sundance. In 2004, he was invited to participate at the Sundance Directors Lab, a workshop dedicated to young filmmakers from all over the world. In 2006, he founded the production company Pop Pictures, with which he made his first feature-length film, Wonderful Town, which won the New Currents Award at the Busan International Film Festival and the Tiger Award at Rotterdam.
FILMOGRAFIA
Motorcycle (cm, 2000), Raw Velvet (doc., 2002), Waiting (cm, 2003), Boy Genius (cm, 2004), The Sigh (cm, 2005), 3 Friends (doc., 2005), Wonderful Town (2007), Bangkok Blues (cm, 2009), Phuket (cm, 2009), Hi-So (2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Aditya Assarat
fotografia/cinematography
Umpornpol Yugala
montaggio/film editing
Lee Chatametikool
scenografia/production design
Rasigate Sookkarn
musica/music
Koichi Shimizu, Desktop Errors
suono/sound
Akaritchalerm Kalayanamitr
interpreti/cast
Ananda Everingham, Cerise Leang, Sajee Apiwong
produttori/producers
Soros Sukhum, Aditya Assarat, Ananda Everingham, Napassarin Prompila
produzione/production
Pop Pictures
coproduzione/coproduction
Spicy Disc, Halo Productions
vendita all’estero/world sales
Memento Films International
