
Directing
Anocha Suwichakornpong
Born 1976-01-01 · Chonburi, Thailand
Anocha Suwichakornpong was born in Thailand 1976. She spent the 1990's living in England, where she attended universities and graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees. In 2006, she graduated from the MFA film program at Columbia University, where she was a recipient of Hollywood Foreign Press Association Fellowship. She attended the Talent Campus of the Berlin Film Festival in 2006, where her feature-length script, The White Room, was among the 15 projects chosen to participate in the Script Clinic. Her thesis film Graceland was selected for the 59th Cannes Film Festival's Cinefondation program. It was the first Thai short film selected for the Cannes Film Festival. It was also featured at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and many other festivals.
Acting credits
6.2According to Thai superstition, a virgin can ward off rain by planting lemongrass upside-down underneath an open sky. This belief remains prevalent to this day. As clouds begin to gather, Piano, the young production manager on a film set, is tasked to carry out this tradition. As her fellow female co-workers shy away from the duty, Piano is left with no choice but to take on the burden of becoming the lemongrass girl.
Lemongrass Girl
2021
6.0The chronicles of a day in the life of a nameless woman as she wanders around Singapore. Part documentary part video essay, 'Nightfall' is a fictionalized account of Suwichakornpong's time spent during a residency researching Thai politics in a foreign land.
Nightfall
2016
Behind the camera
6.2According to Thai superstition, a virgin can ward off rain by planting lemongrass upside-down underneath an open sky. This belief remains prevalent to this day. As clouds begin to gather, Piano, the young production manager on a film set, is tasked to carry out this tradition. As her fellow female co-workers shy away from the duty, Piano is left with no choice but to take on the burden of becoming the lemongrass girl.
Lemongrass Girl
2021
6.2According to Thai superstition, a virgin can ward off rain by planting lemongrass upside-down underneath an open sky. This belief remains prevalent to this day. As clouds begin to gather, Piano, the young production manager on a film set, is tasked to carry out this tradition. As her fellow female co-workers shy away from the duty, Piano is left with no choice but to take on the burden of becoming the lemongrass girl.
Lemongrass Girl
2021
Hyper-realistic minidrama. An afternoon in the life of fish processing plant labourer Wawa Kai, one of the many migrants from Myanmar working in factories in Thailand. The film follows her every move, revealing what looks like a routine day, but in fact it's a scary one for her, as she reports a crime.
Overseas
2012
Hyper-realistic minidrama. An afternoon in the life of fish processing plant labourer Wawa Kai, one of the many migrants from Myanmar working in factories in Thailand. The film follows her every move, revealing what looks like a routine day, but in fact it's a scary one for her, as she reports a crime.
Overseas
2012
NRProduced by the Luang Prabang Film Festival, "MEKONG 2030" is a collection of short narrative films that envision the future of the Mekong River from five different national and cultural perspectives. Set in the year 2030, they aim to both entertain and inspire audiences to actively protect this critical life source.
Mekong 2030
2020
6.1An 11-year-old boy steals money for bribes to remove his gay older brother from Thai military conscription rolls, unaware of the ramifications.
How to Win at Checkers (Every Time)
2015
NRThursday resulted from the famous Danish CPH-Dox projects whereby two filmmakers (one European, one non-European) collaborate. Suwichakornpong and Kameric wrote visual dialogues from Asia and Europe, as it were.
Thursday
2015
NRThursday resulted from the famous Danish CPH-Dox projects whereby two filmmakers (one European, one non-European) collaborate. Suwichakornpong and Kameric wrote visual dialogues from Asia and Europe, as it were.
Thursday
2015
NRA factory story, in which the process of image-making in negotiated in the slippage between fiction and documentary.
Jai
2007
NRA factory story, in which the process of image-making in negotiated in the slippage between fiction and documentary.
Jai
2007
5.3A man and a mysterious women explore Bangkok over the course of one night.
Graceland
2006
5.3A man and a mysterious women explore Bangkok over the course of one night.
Graceland
2006
6.4Amidst the post-economic crash, a man must return from abroad after his father committed suicide. After return home, he must confront his past and struggle to hold on to his present.
Concrete Clouds
2013
5.0Nuhm is a construction foreman working in Bangkok. The political instability in Thailand has making its presence felt in all business sectors. Nuhm suddenly finds himself out of jobs. He decides to leave Bangkok to go back to his hometown in the northeast of Thailand to attend his high school friend’s wedding during the Thai New Year in April which also happens to be the hottest month of the year. Nuhm reunites with his old friends at the wedding in Khon Kaen.
In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire
2012
No synopsis available yet.
Ghosts
2005
6.0The chronicles of a day in the life of a nameless woman as she wanders around Singapore. Part documentary part video essay, 'Nightfall' is a fictionalized account of Suwichakornpong's time spent during a residency researching Thai politics in a foreign land.
Nightfall
2016
4.9A friendship develops between a young paralysed man from a wealthy Bangkok family and his male nurse from Isan in the North of Thailand.
Mundane History
2009
4.9A friendship develops between a young paralysed man from a wealthy Bangkok family and his male nurse from Isan in the North of Thailand.
Mundane History
2009
4.9A friendship develops between a young paralysed man from a wealthy Bangkok family and his male nurse from Isan in the North of Thailand.
Mundane History
2009
NRRivers and Suwichakornpong’s first collaboration, commissioned by the 2018 Thai Biennale.
The Ambassadors
2018
NRNo synopsis available yet.
10 Min
2019
5.5Helmed by three female directors, this omnibus features three films set in China, Thailand and Singapore respectively. Each story occurs at a specific mealtime, and seeks to interpret the frailties and complexities of love through different Asian perspectives. All three stories are tethered with the question, "Will you marry me?" Mirroring the repasts themselves, Breakfast and Dinner are heavier in tone, while Lunch is light with a sprinkle of humor.
Breakfast Lunch Dinner
2010
6.2Four young travelers embark on a trip to Kanchanaburi to see the museum, but pass the time in other ways when they find out it's closed for refurbishment.
Come Here
2021
6.2Four young travelers embark on a trip to Kanchanaburi to see the museum, but pass the time in other ways when they find out it's closed for refurbishment.
Come Here
2021