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- Movie: The Terrorists
- Thai:
- Director: Thunska Pansittivorakul
- Writer: Thunska Pansittivorakul, Panu Trivej
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- World Premiere: February, 2011 (Berlin International Film Festival)
- Release Date:
- Runtime: 105 min.
- Language: Thai
- Country: Thailand, Germany
Plot
A black cloak of forgetting, suppressing and covering has descended on the events that took place in Bangkok in spring 2010. Black as the night of complete darkness in which the film opens. Two men are in a fishing boat talking. One feels more than one sees that the seawater around them is warm and smooth, teeming with brightly-colored fish. By night, the rubber plantation also comes across as enticing and full of secrets, until lurid reminders of the bloody massacre flash up. This film arose from of a state of shock – about the news, about the subsequent repression in the authoritarian kingdom but also about the debilitating passivity that followed the pro-democracy Red Shirt uprising. It is a radical personal assessment in 17 episodes. An angry protest in the form of a diary, where sexual resistance and erotic fantasies are juxtaposed with thoughtful rummaging through the director’s family album, creating a confusing pamphlet. As a young boy in the 1970s, Thunska was already forced to flee Bangkok for the south with his mother. The film poses questions without knowing the answers, providing an unusual insight into an extremely traumatized society.-- Berlin International Film Festival
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Film Festivals
- 2011 (61st) Berlin International Film Festival - February 10-20, 2011 - Forum *World Premiere
- 2011 (13th) Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema - April 6-17, 2011 - Competition: Cinema of the Future
- 2011 (11th) New Horizons International Film Festival - July 21-31, 2011 - New Horizons International Competition
- 2011 (5th) Cinema Digital Seoul Film Festival - August 17-23, 2011 - CINDI Extreme *Asian Premiere
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