The 9th World Film Festival of Bangkok (เทศกาลภาพยนตร์โลกแห่งกรุงเทพฯ ครั้งที่ 9) opened yesterday, and runs until 27th January. (It was originally scheduled for 4th to 13th November last year, though the dates were postponed due to flooding in Bangkok.) Whereas the 6th, 7th, and 8th festivals were held at Paragon, the 9th will return to the festival’s older venue, Esplanade Cineplex. The 5th festival (the last one held at Esplanade) featured several retrospectives and sidebar events, though subsequent festivals have been less extensive.
The 9th festival includes Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Werner Herzog’s documentary about primitive art filmed at Chauvet, France, which will be screening in 3D on 23rd and 25th January. Exceptionally, Herzog was granted permission to film inside the Chauvet cave, which contains the earliest paintings ever discovered. The cave walls contain paleolithic images of wild animals painted approximately 32,000 years ago, and the 3D camera captures the undulations of the cave’s geology.
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