Awat Ratanapintha

Acting

Awat Ratanapintha

Born 1996-02-08 · Bangkok, Thailand

Awat Ratanapintha (Somkit) is a Thai actor, screenwriter, and emerging producer with over 14 years of experience in film, television, and acting. His experience, creative work, and producing practice span short films, artist documentaries, and experimental live performance. His notable works include “Doi Boy” (2023), “Beneath the Skin” (2024), and “Operation Undead” (2024). An alumnus of Berlinale Talents, his performance in “Doi Boy” earned him the Rising Star award at BIFF, multiple Best Actor awards in Thailand, and a nomination at the Asian Film Awards. He is known as a versatile and dedicated actor and filmmaker, crafting emotionally resonant and socially engaged stories across mediums.

Acting credits

Operation Undead poster
4.7

Inexperienced Thai soldiers battle a growing undead menace in this gruesome survival horror. A Japanese military experiment that turns men into monsters escapes containment, it’s up to these troops to save their nation from annihilation.

Operation Undead

2024

Haunted Universities 3 poster
5.5

Vindictive spirits, lurking dangers and a peculiar shrine terrorize unsuspecting students who tangle with the supernatural in this horror anthology.

Haunted Universities 3

2024

Doi Boy poster
6.3

Sorn, an ethnic Shan sex worker, tries to build a future in Chiang Mai, Thailand, as a refugee far from home, but he is drawn into a complex relationship with one client, an investigator probing a political activist.

Doi Boy

2023

The Burning Giants poster
NR

Follows an environmental and Indigenous rights activist from the Karen group who is killed after protesting the forced eviction of his village from a protected forest.

The Burning Giants

2026

No artwork available
NR

A stateless Hmong woman assumes the identity of another who looks just like her to escape oppression and reinvent herself in Cold War Thailand.

The Chameleon Woman

My Name Is Love poster
4.3

A boy who doesn't believe in love ends up falling for the girl next door that he once scorned, only to find out he cannot love and that he is cupid, in order to love he must help three people successfully fall in love.

My Name Is Love

2012

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

Day 10 poster
NR

On the 10th day of quarantine, Aey heard a female voice from the balcony of the next room. They started chatting because they were both lonely.

Day 10

2020

Behind the camera