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SOLIDS BY THE SEASHORE

2023, 93 minutes, Thailand, 1.85, Color, 5.1 Sound, in Thai and Southern Thai with English subtitles

Sales/Festivals: Diversion (Thailand)

Two Awards in Busan!

LG OLED New Currents Award
We aimed to find a film embodying the primary significance of this award, which is a new vision. Each director provided unique answers, and our hearts were moved as we watched Solids by the Seashore.

NETPAC Award
Solids by the Seashore presents a variety of themes spanning between human and human, and human and nature, with a clear attitude in a flexible manner. Through images, it delicately connects not only human and nature but also the flow of time, tradition and change, the microscopic and the macroscopic, inviting one to imagine an uncertain future.

Synopsis:

Southern Thai town. On a once-sandy beach eroded by high tides and now replaced by artificial rock sea walls, two young women meet. Shati is a local Muslim woman from a conservative family. Fon is an activist-turned-visual artist, in town for the her new art exhibition. The deeper they get to know each other, the bigger Shati’s internal conflict with her traditional roots - that forbids same-sex relationship - becomes. Caught between fear and desire, she is reminded of the old cautionary tales from her childhood told by her late and beloved grandmother.

During Shati’s pivotal moment, on Fon’s last night in town, the strange otherworldly occurrences in the tales of Shati’s grandmother gradually start to happen. A storm is brewing. Whether it’s all a dream or not, Shati is making a decision to forge a path for herself, and comes to terms with who she is.

About the Director:

Patiparn Boontarig graduated in Film and Photography at Thammasat University in Bangkok, and has worked on a number of shorts and documentaries as director and screenwriter. He was assistant director to Phuttiphong Aroonpheng’s MANTA RAY (2018 Venice Film Festival) and Jakrawal Nilthamrong's ANATOMY OF TIME (2021 Tokyo FILMeX Grand Prize). SOLIDS BY THE SEASHORE is his first feature film.