Wildtype, the annual season of short films programmed by Chayanin Tiangpitayagorn, Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa, and Sasawat Boonsri, returns next month for its seventeenth year. After being held largely online in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the event has been expanding during the past few years, with screenings around the country in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.
2026 is no exception, and there will be screenings at Buffalo Bridge Gallery in Bangkok and a dozen other locations around Thailand on 3rd and 4th October. Highlights this year include Long Live the Sin, A Little Bird Finds Its Way Home (นกเล็ก), 8 (๘), and Soundtrack to a Coup d’État 2.
2026 is no exception, and there will be screenings at Buffalo Bridge Gallery in Bangkok and a dozen other locations around Thailand on 3rd and 4th October. Highlights this year include Long Live the Sin, A Little Bird Finds Its Way Home (นกเล็ก), 8 (๘), and Soundtrack to a Coup d’État 2.
Beam Wong’s music video Long Live the Sin features imagery associated with the three-finger protest movement. It was shown earlier this year at the Goethe-Institut.
In Napasin Samkaewcham’s A Little Bird Finds Its Way Home, a family shares their memories of their grandmother at her funeral. (Napasin’s previous short films include A Love Letter to My Sister.)
Pattanapong Khongsak’s short film 8 combines historical material with modern technology, using generative AI to visualise the past. Its subtitle, The Silence of the Goats, is a pun on The Silence of the Lambs.
Soundtrack to a Coup d’État 2 is the most intriguing film in this year’s programme. Its director is anonymous, and the film is credited to a pseudonym, Johan Liebert. (It’s not a sequel to the 2024 Cold War documentary of the same title.) The film is described — sarcastically? — as a documentary paying tribute to Prem Tinsulanonda and the brave military leaders who staged a coup to protect the country and prevent Thaksin Shinawatra’s attempts to exploit the monarchy.
In Napasin Samkaewcham’s A Little Bird Finds Its Way Home, a family shares their memories of their grandmother at her funeral. (Napasin’s previous short films include A Love Letter to My Sister.)
Pattanapong Khongsak’s short film 8 combines historical material with modern technology, using generative AI to visualise the past. Its subtitle, The Silence of the Goats, is a pun on The Silence of the Lambs.
Soundtrack to a Coup d’État 2 is the most intriguing film in this year’s programme. Its director is anonymous, and the film is credited to a pseudonym, Johan Liebert. (It’s not a sequel to the 2024 Cold War documentary of the same title.) The film is described — sarcastically? — as a documentary paying tribute to Prem Tinsulanonda and the brave military leaders who staged a coup to protect the country and prevent Thaksin Shinawatra’s attempts to exploit the monarchy.
