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Come Here
a
film by Anocha Suwichakornpong
69 minutes, Thailand, 2021, Black & White
4:3 Aspect Ratio, 5.1 Sound, in Thai with English subtitles
Synopsis:
Four
friends in their mid-twenties go to Kanchanaburi, west of
Thailand, on a trip. They visit the World War II memorial site
of the ‘Death Railway’, built to honor tens of thousands war
prisoners who lost their lives here.
At
night, back at the raft house, they are drinking, smoking weed,
and talking randomly. Once in a while, someone would act out a
scene from a play – it turns out they are all actors in the same
theatre company.
Running
parallel to this narrative is the story of another woman who
finds herself alone in the middle of the forest after her friend
mysteriously disappears. The four friends in the raft house say
something that might allude to that woman, but it is not
certain. The woman finds a natural stream. She drinks, washes
her face, and
then goes into the water. Her face begins to transform into
another person’s.
It’s
getting late, all the friends are intoxicated. Some pass out in
the bedroom. Only two are left by themselves. Romance is in the
air.
Fireworks
go off, one after another, high up in the night sky. Each of
them begin to wake up and they all stand still, watching the
beautiful fireworks shooting up the sky and disappear one by
one.
With Supports from:
- Hubert Bals Fund
- Next Masters Support Program, Talents Tokyo
- The Film Study Center at Harvard University
- Visions Sud Est
About the Director:
Anocha
Suwichakornpong is a filmmaker whose work is informed by the
socio-political history of Thailand. Her films have been the
subject of retrospectives at the Museum of the Moving Image, New
York; TIFF Cinematheque, Toronto; Cinema Moderne, Montreal; and
Olhar De Cinema, Brazil.
BY
THE TIME IT GETS DARK, Anocha's second feature, centres around a
student massacre that took place in 1976 by Thai state forces
and far-right paramilitaries at Thammasat University in Bangkok.
It premiered at Locarno Film Festival and was presented at
festivals worldwide, including Toronto, BFI London, Viennale,
and Rotterdam. The film won 3 Thailand National Film Awards
including Best Picture and Best Director. In 2017, it was chosen
as Thailand’s Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film.
MUNDANE
HISTORY, her first feature, won numerous awards including the
Tiger Award at Rotterdam. An allegory for the current political
situation in Thailand, the film focuses on the relationship
between a father and his paraplegic son. Her third feature,
KRABI 2562, co-directed with British filmmaker Ben Rivers,
explores a town in southern Thailand. The film also premiered at
Locarno and has been touring the festival circuit. Anocha
received her MFA from Columbia University, with her thesis film,
GRACELAND, becoming the first Thai short film to be officially
selected by Cannes Film Festival.
In
2017, together with Visra Vichit-Vadakan and Aditya Assarat, she
founded Purin Pictures, an initiative to support Southeast Asian
cinema. Currently, Between 2018 and 2020, Anocha was a visiting
lecturer at the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at
Harvard University. In 2019, Anocha was named a Prince Claus
Laureate.
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2021 Berlin International
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