Next month, the Thai Film Archive at Salaya will screen a season of films about fading memories and broken dreams. Highlights of the Lost and Longing (แด่วันคืนที่สูญหาย) season include Taiki Sakpisit’s The Edge of Daybreak (พญาโศกพิโยคค่ำ) and Jakrawal Nilthamrong’s Anatomy of Time (เวลา), both of which feature former soldiers on their deathbeds. The unnamed men remain largely bedridden, tended by nurses and family members, though their violent reputations—leading the anti-Communist purges of the 1970s—have not been forgotten, and the men’s karma is directly cited as the reason for their sickness.
Aekaphong Saransate and Thanakrit Duangmaneeporn’s recent documentary Breaking the Cycle (อำนาจ ศรัทธา อนาคต), about the rise and fall of the Future Forward party, is also part of the season. Anocha Suwichakornpong’s By the Time It Gets Dark (ดาวคะนอง), about a woman’s recollections of the 1976 massacre at Thammasat University, is also included, and will be shown on the anniversary of the event. (Notoriously, a previous anniversary screening was cancelled by the police.)
Chatrichalerm Yukol’s classic His Name Is Karn (เขาชื่อกานต์), which launched a wave of groundbreaking social realist Thai films in the mid 1970s, is also part of the season. Chatrichalerm’s Somsri (ครูสมศรี) is also showing at the Film Archive this month, on 5th and 27th September, before the Lost and Longing season begins.
Anatomy of Time is showing on 5th and 15th October; The Edge of Daybreak is on 5th and 17th October; By the Time It Gets Dark is on 5th, 6th, and 17th October; Breaking the Cycle is on 19th and 24th October; and His Name Is Karn is on 18th and 24th October. The Edge of Daybreak was previously shown at last year’s Chiang Mai Film Festival. By the Time It Gets Dark has been shown at Warehouse 30, at Alliance Française, at the Film Archive, at Thammasat University, at the 13th International Conference on Thai Studies, and at Homeflick. Breaking the Cycle went on general release earlier this year.
Aside from the Lost and Longing season, there will also be a screening of Nonzee Nimibutr’s Nang Nak at the Film Archive on 4th October. This classic horror film has been shown there fairly regularly, including earlier this year, in 2021, and in 2013. It was also screened in 2020 at Lido Connect, in 2019 at Bangkok Screening Room, at an outdoor screening in 2018, and at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand in 2010. It will be screened at Doc Club and Pub in Bangkok on 17th and 20th October.
Aekaphong Saransate and Thanakrit Duangmaneeporn’s recent documentary Breaking the Cycle (อำนาจ ศรัทธา อนาคต), about the rise and fall of the Future Forward party, is also part of the season. Anocha Suwichakornpong’s By the Time It Gets Dark (ดาวคะนอง), about a woman’s recollections of the 1976 massacre at Thammasat University, is also included, and will be shown on the anniversary of the event. (Notoriously, a previous anniversary screening was cancelled by the police.)
Chatrichalerm Yukol’s classic His Name Is Karn (เขาชื่อกานต์), which launched a wave of groundbreaking social realist Thai films in the mid 1970s, is also part of the season. Chatrichalerm’s Somsri (ครูสมศรี) is also showing at the Film Archive this month, on 5th and 27th September, before the Lost and Longing season begins.
Anatomy of Time is showing on 5th and 15th October; The Edge of Daybreak is on 5th and 17th October; By the Time It Gets Dark is on 5th, 6th, and 17th October; Breaking the Cycle is on 19th and 24th October; and His Name Is Karn is on 18th and 24th October. The Edge of Daybreak was previously shown at last year’s Chiang Mai Film Festival. By the Time It Gets Dark has been shown at Warehouse 30, at Alliance Française, at the Film Archive, at Thammasat University, at the 13th International Conference on Thai Studies, and at Homeflick. Breaking the Cycle went on general release earlier this year.
Aside from the Lost and Longing season, there will also be a screening of Nonzee Nimibutr’s Nang Nak at the Film Archive on 4th October. This classic horror film has been shown there fairly regularly, including earlier this year, in 2021, and in 2013. It was also screened in 2020 at Lido Connect, in 2019 at Bangkok Screening Room, at an outdoor screening in 2018, and at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand in 2010. It will be screened at Doc Club and Pub in Bangkok on 17th and 20th October.
