Thai production and sales outfit Neramitnung Film is introducing Filmart buyers to Wai Noom 2001, the latest film by 4 Kings director Phutthipong Nakthong, and Happy Monday! starring Oabnithi Wiwattanawarang.
Wai Noom 2001 is a prison drama loosely based on a true story about a group of teen criminals kept in the most notorious prison in Bangkok. The original cast from box-office hits 4 Kings and its sequel will reunite with director Phutthipong, including Nat Kitcharit, Arak Amornsupasiri, Itkron Pungkiatrussamee, Benjamin Joseph Varney and Aelm Thavornsiri.
Happy Monday! is a time-loop drama about a loser who is happily stuck in a repeated Monday because...
Wai Noom 2001 is a prison drama loosely based on a true story about a group of teen criminals kept in the most notorious prison in Bangkok. The original cast from box-office hits 4 Kings and its sequel will reunite with director Phutthipong, including Nat Kitcharit, Arak Amornsupasiri, Itkron Pungkiatrussamee, Benjamin Joseph Varney and Aelm Thavornsiri.
Happy Monday! is a time-loop drama about a loser who is happily stuck in a repeated Monday because...
- 3/12/2024
- ScreenDaily
By Hugo Hamon
After a long career as a documentary filmmaker, during which his movies won awards at several festivals, including Locarno and the Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival, Thai director Nontawat Numbenchapol presented his first feature film at the 2023 Busan International Film Festival. “Doi Boy” is a neo-noir feature that conceals a sharp documentary approach. Produced by Anti-Archive and distributed worldwide by Netflix, the film was highly anticipated and made a strong impression at its premiere.
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Sorn, a young man conscripted by the Shan army in eastern Myanmar, flees to Thailand. As an illegal immigrant living in poverty in Chiang Mai, he becomes a dancer and masseur at a gay club called Doi Boy, with the goal of saving up to buy a passport. However, the club closes due to Covid, leaving Sorn in an extremely precarious situation.
After a long career as a documentary filmmaker, during which his movies won awards at several festivals, including Locarno and the Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival, Thai director Nontawat Numbenchapol presented his first feature film at the 2023 Busan International Film Festival. “Doi Boy” is a neo-noir feature that conceals a sharp documentary approach. Produced by Anti-Archive and distributed worldwide by Netflix, the film was highly anticipated and made a strong impression at its premiere.
Follow our tribute to Netflix by clicking on the image below
Sorn, a young man conscripted by the Shan army in eastern Myanmar, flees to Thailand. As an illegal immigrant living in poverty in Chiang Mai, he becomes a dancer and masseur at a gay club called Doi Boy, with the goal of saving up to buy a passport. However, the club closes due to Covid, leaving Sorn in an extremely precarious situation.
- 1/22/2024
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
Male objectification hasn’t played that much of a role in the history of cinema. I mean, compared to the fairer sex, we haven’t seen many films where the physical appeal of a man has been put at the forefront and used as a storytelling tool. Netflix’s latest Thai drama, titled Doi Boy, does exactly that. Directed by Nontawat Numbenchapol, Doi Boy chronicles the journey of this young ethnic Shan man, named Sorn, in a world of sex, lies, scheming, and tenderness. In the neon-drenched city of Chiang Mai, Sorn struggles to make ends meet. He is an undocumented refugee from the land of Myanmar, so it is not possible for him to get a proper job in Thailand. As a result, he ends up turning himself into a Doi Boy, which basically means a male prostitute. The work keeps Sorn afloat, and he discovers a sense of belonging.
- 11/25/2023
- by Rohitavra Majumdar
- Film Fugitives
New Thai outfit to attend Busan’s Acfm for the first time.
New Thai production and sales outfit Neramitnung Film is attending Busan’s Acfm for the first time with a slate of four titles, including a sequel to box office hit 4 Kings and Davy Chou-produced Doi Boy.
4 Kings Part 2 sees the return of a young drug trafficker from the first film – played by Ukrit Willibrord Dongabriel, aka Thai rapper D Gerrard – who is determined to seek revenge from two rival gangs, unleashing a new war of violence.
Filmmaker Puttipong Nakthong also returns to direct the sequel, which is...
New Thai production and sales outfit Neramitnung Film is attending Busan’s Acfm for the first time with a slate of four titles, including a sequel to box office hit 4 Kings and Davy Chou-produced Doi Boy.
4 Kings Part 2 sees the return of a young drug trafficker from the first film – played by Ukrit Willibrord Dongabriel, aka Thai rapper D Gerrard – who is determined to seek revenge from two rival gangs, unleashing a new war of violence.
Filmmaker Puttipong Nakthong also returns to direct the sequel, which is...
- 10/8/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
4Kings beats new opener West Side Story at the Thai box office with the biggest opening weekend for a local film this year.
4Kings reigned at the Thai box office with the biggest opening weekend for a local film this year, taking in $1.56m (50m baht) over four days.
The high school gang film, which follows a group of teenagers who always resort to violence to settle disputes with rival gangs, opened top, beating new opener West Side Story and last weekend’s box office champion Venom: Let There Be Carnage by a huge margin.
4Kings marks the first film...
4Kings reigned at the Thai box office with the biggest opening weekend for a local film this year, taking in $1.56m (50m baht) over four days.
The high school gang film, which follows a group of teenagers who always resort to violence to settle disputes with rival gangs, opened top, beating new opener West Side Story and last weekend’s box office champion Venom: Let There Be Carnage by a huge margin.
4Kings marks the first film...
- 12/14/2021
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
This fascinating, enigmatic feature confidently leaps down the conceptual rabbit hole to mix a historic massacre with transcendent forests and telekinesis
Thailand could yet be the birthplace for a new kind of cinema: Buddhist supernatural realism. This fascinating, enigmatic feature from 41-year-old Thai film-maker Anocha Suwichakornpong is obviously comparable to the work of Thailand’s much-garlanded Cannes Palme d’Or-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. She has something of his quietism and transcendentalism, the same feeling for the mysteries of the northern forests and the alternative spiritual realities that can make themselves plain in a simple setting. But she has a distinctive postmodern angularity and quirk; Suwichakornpong keeps you off balance with shroom-fuelled fantasy and Lynchian departures.
On the surface, it is a movie within a movie about a notorious military massacre of student protesters in Bangkok in 1976. We see glimpses of this, followed by a scene showing a film director, Ann...
Thailand could yet be the birthplace for a new kind of cinema: Buddhist supernatural realism. This fascinating, enigmatic feature from 41-year-old Thai film-maker Anocha Suwichakornpong is obviously comparable to the work of Thailand’s much-garlanded Cannes Palme d’Or-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. She has something of his quietism and transcendentalism, the same feeling for the mysteries of the northern forests and the alternative spiritual realities that can make themselves plain in a simple setting. But she has a distinctive postmodern angularity and quirk; Suwichakornpong keeps you off balance with shroom-fuelled fantasy and Lynchian departures.
On the surface, it is a movie within a movie about a notorious military massacre of student protesters in Bangkok in 1976. We see glimpses of this, followed by a scene showing a film director, Ann...
- 6/16/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
This was a busy year at Tiff, where I was a juror for Fipresci, helping to award a prize for best premiere in the Discovery section. Not only did this mean that some other films had to take a back burner—sadly, I did not see Eduardo Williams’ The Human Surge—but my writing time was a bit compromised as well. Better late than never? That is for you, Gentle Reader, to decide.Austerlitz (Sergei Loznitsa, Germany)So basic in the telling—a record of several days’ worth of visitors mostly to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienberg, Germany—Austerlitz is a film that in many ways exemplifies the critical theory of Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin. What is the net effect for humanity when, faced with the drive to remember the unfathomable, we employ the grossly inadequate tools at our disposal?Austerlitz takes its name from W. G. Sebald’s final novel.
- 9/20/2016
- MUBI
What's the best measure of how good Slice is? Perhaps this; it's technically a vicious, blood-soaked police procedural about a dirty cop who finds himself tracking down a murderer, convinced a long-lost childhood friend is the killer he's after. But it's not the violence that has the most staying power, or the setpieces, or the plot beats - it's the overwhelming sense of loss after the credits roll, which delivers an emotional punch out of all proportion to a gritty, overblown thriller.
Though Kongkiat Khomsiri is credited as writer and director, the man behind the original story is Wisit Sasanatieng, he of Tears of the Black Tiger, Citizen Dog and The Unseeable. Regardless of who did what, Sasanatieng's fingerprints are all over Slice, from the sizzling colours in much of the production design, to the picture-postcard framing that recalls Tears, to the sepia-tinged flashbacks dotted through the running time.
While...
Though Kongkiat Khomsiri is credited as writer and director, the man behind the original story is Wisit Sasanatieng, he of Tears of the Black Tiger, Citizen Dog and The Unseeable. Regardless of who did what, Sasanatieng's fingerprints are all over Slice, from the sizzling colours in much of the production design, to the picture-postcard framing that recalls Tears, to the sepia-tinged flashbacks dotted through the running time.
While...
- 11/22/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Grimmupnorth 2010 is coming to Manchester for a second time this Halloween! Readers may remember last year’s coverage from the first Grimmfest last October ‘09. Well, we’re going back for more this year too. Festival director Simeon Halligan and his crew have spent all year finding some amazing new titles to screen at Manchester’s biggest horror film festival, including Evil: In The Time Of Heroes, which I missed at Eiff so am well up for seeing. There’s also the inventively named Canadian shocker, Dead Hooker In A Trunk, the Japanese genre mash-up Alien Vs Ninja, Thai thriller Slice, Zombie mock-u-mentary Reel Zombies and a horror doc featuring all kinds of industry insiders, The Splat Pack. There’s also a ton of activities and seminars for festival goers to participate in too. Personally I’m looking forward to the special screening for my favourite Argento film, Deep Red.
- 10/14/2010
- QuietEarth.us
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