Aditya Assarat

Directing

Aditya Assarat

Born

1972-01-16 (54)

Place of birth

Bangkok, Thailand

Known for

Directing

Credits

34 titles

Aditya Assarat is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, producer and cinematographer.

Known for

Letters from the South poster
5.4

Six filmmakers present six short films about the experiences of Chinese immigrants. Shot across Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Myanmar, the anthology depicts the crisis of identity that accompanies international migration.

Letters from the South

2013

All Powerful! poster
NR

Auntie Nid's legs hurt. Kane stops by to visit. He is bringing her something. Something amazing.

All Powerful!

2014

No artwork available
6.3

In a remote Thai village, a man gets a call informing him that his son died in a crash. He needs to bring the body back and give a decent funeral, but he can't afford to do both.

Motorcycle

2000

Waiting poster
4.5

Mr. Koon undertakes a 700-mile journey from North to South Thailand to find the woman who lived next door when he was young. During the journey, he crosses the path and lives of other travelers, who are also waiting for something and moved by the same laws of nature, yet indefinite desire that drove Mr. Koon to look for a childhood dream forty years old.

Waiting

2003

Bangkok Blues poster
NR

Louis and his girlfriend Fern are on the rocks. He finds some secret messages she left hidden in the pages of his books. Louis drags his best friend Ananda over to Fern's apartment to confront her. He doesn't want to keep finding these messages years after they have broken up. But that is precisely why she left them there. A short film about preserving old memories, originally appearing as part of the omnibus film Sawasdee Bangkok.

Bangkok Blues

2009

Phuket poster
NR

The story of the friendship between a young Korean actress and a limousine driver at a hotel in Thailand.

Phuket

2009

Behind the camera

Letters from the South poster
5.4

Six filmmakers present six short films about the experiences of Chinese immigrants. Shot across Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Myanmar, the anthology depicts the crisis of identity that accompanies international migration.

Letters from the South

2013

Letters from the South poster
5.4

Six filmmakers present six short films about the experiences of Chinese immigrants. Shot across Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Myanmar, the anthology depicts the crisis of identity that accompanies international migration.

Letters from the South

2013

All Powerful! poster
NR

Auntie Nid's legs hurt. Kane stops by to visit. He is bringing her something. Something amazing.

All Powerful!

2014

All Powerful! poster
NR

Auntie Nid's legs hurt. Kane stops by to visit. He is bringing her something. Something amazing.

All Powerful!

2014

No artwork available
6.3

In a remote Thai village, a man gets a call informing him that his son died in a crash. He needs to bring the body back and give a decent funeral, but he can't afford to do both.

Motorcycle

2000

No artwork available
6.3

In a remote Thai village, a man gets a call informing him that his son died in a crash. He needs to bring the body back and give a decent funeral, but he can't afford to do both.

Motorcycle

2000

Waiting poster
4.5

Mr. Koon undertakes a 700-mile journey from North to South Thailand to find the woman who lived next door when he was young. During the journey, he crosses the path and lives of other travelers, who are also waiting for something and moved by the same laws of nature, yet indefinite desire that drove Mr. Koon to look for a childhood dream forty years old.

Waiting

2003

Waiting poster
4.5

Mr. Koon undertakes a 700-mile journey from North to South Thailand to find the woman who lived next door when he was young. During the journey, he crosses the path and lives of other travelers, who are also waiting for something and moved by the same laws of nature, yet indefinite desire that drove Mr. Koon to look for a childhood dream forty years old.

Waiting

2003

Bangkok Blues poster
NR

Louis and his girlfriend Fern are on the rocks. He finds some secret messages she left hidden in the pages of his books. Louis drags his best friend Ananda over to Fern's apartment to confront her. He doesn't want to keep finding these messages years after they have broken up. But that is precisely why she left them there. A short film about preserving old memories, originally appearing as part of the omnibus film Sawasdee Bangkok.

Bangkok Blues

2009

Phuket poster
NR

The story of the friendship between a young Korean actress and a limousine driver at a hotel in Thailand.

Phuket

2009

Phuket poster
NR

The story of the friendship between a young Korean actress and a limousine driver at a hotel in Thailand.

Phuket

2009

Sunset poster
NR

Military advisors investigate a complaint regarding an exhibition. The photographs in question merely show the spontaneous reactions of ordinary people. Originally appearing as part of the 10 Years Thailand omnibus, this short imagines a future where the state presumes the gullibility of the general public and distrusts the intentions of foreign-educated individuals.

Sunset

2018

Wonderful Town poster
6.1

Local girl Na runs a small hotel where every day is more of less the same until Ta arrives one day. Ta is an architect from the city who has come to oversee the building of a new development and very slowly the two build a friendship that develops into something more romantic.

Wonderful Town

2007

Wonderful Town poster
6.1

Local girl Na runs a small hotel where every day is more of less the same until Ta arrives one day. Ta is an architect from the city who has come to oversee the building of a new development and very slowly the two build a friendship that develops into something more romantic.

Wonderful Town

2007

Sukhumvit poster
NR

Beat goes to the public swimming pool on Sukhumvit to spy on Pat and Paula. He has had a crush on Pat since freshman year of university. But she has a boyfriend who is on the national football team and has never given Beat much thought. But the day is long and the sun is hot. Maybe today will be different from all the rest. A short film about the kids down the street.

Sukhumvit

2016

6 to 6 poster
4.0

A man cleaning an upscale house is joined by his mother and girlfriend for lunch. The women later help him clean, watching him with unease when he takes a phone call. Aditya Assarat's short film unravels restless and insecure emotions of love where the dusty, empty space of a house and its fluttering white sheets block our view.

6 to 6

2011

Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy poster
7.4

Mary is in her last course of school. She'll confront sudden changes in her life, loving relations and friendship. Based on some tweets of an anonymous girl.

Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy

2013

3 Friends poster
5.8

3 Friends is an experimental fiction/documentary film conceived and directed by 3 friends.

3 Friends

2005

No artwork available
3.2

Thai directors give their take on Thailand's capital city of Bangkok.

Sawasdee Bangkok

2009

Distance poster
5.7

Three stories which each focus on one of three types of relationships: family, friendship, and love. The first story is about conflicted manager on a business trip who is intrigued by an elderly worker and investigates his life. The second story is about a young father who receives a letter that brings him to a foreign land, where old emotions come unburied. The last story is about a visiting professor from overseas who sets a student's heart fluttering, while having to deal with his own.

Distance

2016

Distance poster
5.7

Three stories which each focus on one of three types of relationships: family, friendship, and love. The first story is about conflicted manager on a business trip who is intrigued by an elderly worker and investigates his life. The second story is about a young father who receives a letter that brings him to a foreign land, where old emotions come unburied. The last story is about a visiting professor from overseas who sets a student's heart fluttering, while having to deal with his own.

Distance

2016

No artwork available
NR

Beat is turning 40 and finds himself at a crossroads in life. A well-respected professor, he resigned his position at the university a few years ago over his support for the student protesters.

The Thonglor Kids

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No artwork available
NR

Beat is turning 40 and finds himself at a crossroads in life. A well-respected professor, he resigned his position at the university a few years ago over his support for the student protesters.

The Thonglor Kids

—

36 poster
7.5

A young location scout meets the art director of her project in a day they will keep in their memories for a while, each for their own reasons.

36

2012

Hi-So poster
4.9

Ananda has returned home from abroad. Unsure of his career plans, he accepts an invitation to act in a new movie for a famous director. During the filming in a small seaside town, Zoe, his American girlfriend from University, arrives for a week-long visit.

Hi-So

2010

Hi-So poster
4.9

Ananda has returned home from abroad. Unsure of his career plans, he accepts an invitation to act in a new movie for a famous director. During the filming in a small seaside town, Zoe, his American girlfriend from University, arrives for a week-long visit.

Hi-So

2010

Hi-So poster
4.9

Ananda has returned home from abroad. Unsure of his career plans, he accepts an invitation to act in a new movie for a famous director. During the filming in a small seaside town, Zoe, his American girlfriend from University, arrives for a week-long visit.

Hi-So

2010

20 Scenes of June poster
NR

A short film inspired by the Twitter posts of a randomly chosen user, @pointtion, from 1–8 June, 2012.

20 Scenes of June

2012

I Am the Beauty of Your Beauty, I Am the Fear of Your Fear poster
5.7

Gita, a young woman in search of a life purpose, leaves her hometown in China for Malaysia. As she struggles to come to terms with her past and identity, Gita devotes herself to an intense martial arts training course—turning inwards and arriving to groundbreaking epiphanies about herself.

I Am the Beauty of Your Beauty, I Am the Fear of Your Fear

2024

Ten Years Thailand poster
6.1

A collection of short films by five Thai directors imagining their country ten years into the future.

Ten Years Thailand

2018

Ten Years Thailand poster
6.1

A collection of short films by five Thai directors imagining their country ten years into the future.

Ten Years Thailand

2018

Now Now Now poster
1.0

Paula and her friends, who have Chinese roots, entertain her cousin Mumu, who is visiting Thailand. This short originally appeared as part of Letters from the South, an omnibus centered around Chinese diaspora.

Now Now Now

2013

Bangkok Stories poster
1.0

The film features six themes of love in Bangkok's famous districts: Mo Chit, Yaowarat, Khaosan, Phahurat, Silom, and Sukhumvit in the hands of six different directors.

Bangkok Stories

2016

The Scala poster
6.5

This documentary explores the cinematic magic of Bangkok's last remaining stand-alone movie theater through the eyes of its long-serving staff.

The Scala

2015