Anocha Suwichakornpong

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

Behind the camera

Lemongrass Girl poster
6.2

According 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

Lemongrass Girl poster
6.2

According 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

No artwork available
5.2

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

No artwork available
5.2

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

Mekong 2030 poster
NR

Produced 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

How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) poster
6.1

An 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

Thursday poster
NR

Thursday 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

Thursday poster
NR

Thursday 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

Jai poster
NR

A factory story, in which the process of image-making in negotiated in the slippage between fiction and documentary.

Jai

2007

Jai poster
NR

A factory story, in which the process of image-making in negotiated in the slippage between fiction and documentary.

Jai

2007

Graceland poster
5.3

A man and a mysterious women explore Bangkok over the course of one night.

Graceland

2006

Graceland poster
5.3

A man and a mysterious women explore Bangkok over the course of one night.

Graceland

2006

Concrete Clouds poster
6.4

Amidst 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

In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire poster
5.0

Nuhm 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 artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ghosts

2005

Nightfall poster
6.0

The 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

Mundane History poster
4.9

A 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

Mundane History poster
4.9

A 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

Mundane History poster
4.9

A 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

The Ambassadors poster
NR

Rivers and Suwichakornpong’s first collaboration, commissioned by the 2018 Thai Biennale.

The Ambassadors

2018

10 Min poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

10 Min

2019

Breakfast Lunch Dinner poster
5.5

Helmed 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

Come Here poster
6.2

Four 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

Come Here poster
6.2

Four 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