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SCALA

a film by Ananta Thitanat
Scala

2022, 65 minutes, Thailand, Documentary, 2:1, Color, 5.1 Surround Sound, in Thai with English subtitles

World Sales / Festivals Booking: Diversion


Scala

Synopsis:

After Siam and Lido, the first two standalone cinemas in Siam Square, disappeared in flames long ago, Scala cinema become the last standalone cinema in Bangkok that was still operating, until it was defeated by COVID-19 crisis in 2020.

Not long after its last film screening, Scala declared that it will be dismantled. A filmmaker who is also the daughter of one of the cinema's former employees started to explore the Scala and unexpectedly faced her long-lost childhood memories when she met her father's old friends who gathered for their final mission. Which is dismantling their workplace.


Scala

With Supports from:

  • Yamagata Documentary Dojo (Japan)
  • Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (Hong Kong)
  • Progressive Movement Foundation (Thailand)
  • KohKae (Thailand)


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About the Director:

Ananta Thitanat grew up in the Siam cinema where her father worked. The military crackdown on the Red Shirts protests in 2010 inspired her and Abhichon Rattanabhayon to start making their first short documentary together that year. Since then, she has worked with Abhichon as assistant director and cinematographer. SCALA is her first feature film.


Trailer:


Festivals

  • Berlin International Film Festival, Forum
  • EBS International Documentary Festival
  • Asian Film Joint
  • IDFA
  • Hot Docs
  • Hong Kong Asian Film Festival
  • Painting with Lights, National Gallery Singapore
  • Perspective Film Festival, Singapore
  • La Inesperada
  • Luang Prabang International Film Festival
  • Asian Film Festival, Italy
  • Moscow International Film Festival
  • BaliMakarya

Materials

Poster

Scala



Press Kit

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Still Images

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Press

"Thitanat’s documentary is a cinematic elegy and an elegy for a specific cinema. It’s also a film with almost sacred dimensions, much like Tsai’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn."
- Aren Bergstrom, 3 Bothers Film

"The filmmaker achieves her goal with elegance and delicacy. In her charming shots and short dialogues, she discovers a community of the past."
- Roberto Matteucci, POPCINEMA

Berlinale

2022 Berlinale, Forum

Director

Ananta Thitanat

Producers

Abhichon Rattanabhayon
Nontawat Numbenchapol

Cinematographer

Ananta Thitanat

Editor

Abhichon Rattanabhayon

Sound

Nopawat Likitwong

Cast

Pongpop Inheen
Saman Watcharasirirot
Nakorn Nuamgein
Yodchai Phupanrai

Production Companies

Bandai Dam Studio
Mobile Lab

World Sales

Diversion