Thailand's Pen-ek Ratanaruang on Risking It All to Film the Paradoxes of Thai Democracy

Thailand’s Pen-ek Ratanaruang on Risking It All to Film the Paradoxes of Thai Democracy

 

Pen-ek Ratanaruang, one of Thailand’s most celebrated working directors, has often represented his country abroad at international festivals — including Cannes, Berlin and Venice – and through films sent to Hollywood as Thailand’s official entry to the Oscars (6ixtynin9, 1999; Transistor Love Story, 2001; Headshot, 2011).”

“But with his latest project, the 51-year-old director has trained his attention inward, exploring the fraught and complicated modern political history of his homeland, in a documentary he says….

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