The 8th annual Bangkok World Film Festival will be taking place from November 5th to November 14th with over 150 films from around the world. Movies will be shown from 9 different categories including: Asian Contemporary; Cinema Beat; Cine Latino; Doc Feast; Short Wave; Guts Nouveau; Music & Dance A la Carte, New Turkish Cinema and Retrospective.
The festival will open on November 5th with the much anticipated Thai indie film “Eternity” (“Tee Rak”) being shown with many more exciting and award winning films to follow. Some of the featured films will include “Red Dragonflies” from Singapore which has already won awards at several international film festivals; “The Well”, a coming-of-age drama from India; “Au Revoir Taipei”, a new romantic comedy from Taiwan; “Cold Water of the Sea” from Costa Rica, which won a Tiger Award at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam; “The Famous and the Dead”, a new teenage flick from Brazil; “Curling” from Canada, winner of two awards at the Locarno film festival this year; and “A Film Unfinished”, Yael Hersonski’s powerful documentary that portrays people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto during Nazi occupation in World War II.
The film festival will also have several contests and parties going on including a World Film Festival Bangkok poster competition; A celebrity look alike competition, and what would a film festival be in this day and age if it didn’t have a special themed vampire party that will take place on November 13th.
A complete program schedule, in PDF format, for the World Film Festival Bangkok can be viewed and downloaded Here: Programme 8th World Film Festival Bangkok.
The 8th World Film Festival of Bangkok will be held at Paragon Cineplex and Major Cineplex Sukhumvit (Ekamai) from the 5th to the 14th of November, 2010. Tickets are Baht100 and Bt50 for students. For more information please check out www.WorldFilmBKK.com.
As always, for more information on upcoming events and festivals throughout Thailand you can search the Thailand Events Calender.
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’150 films from around the world’ that’s a lot of movies to watch. I haven’t been to either theatre as Victory is closer and well kitted out (comfortable and not too crowded). But as major theatres in BKK are often well-done, those two are sure to be the same.
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Cat, that is a lot of films to see. Perhaps you’ll get a chance to see a movie or two?
I seriously doubt it as I’m rushing to leave and now I have that drat flu. YOUR flu. Gee Thanks Talen
Time is going by too fast for me.
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Slow down Cat…smell the roses or watch the movies as it were.
I’ve slowed down to a stop due to being sick, but as soon as I feel better I need to go go go. Or else no posts on my site for nov/dec…
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Would love to see some world class movies, but, alas, I am in Khon Kaen and all we get is Thai soap operas up here.
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My condolences…I have done my time in Mukdahan and Nakhom Phanom watching Thai soaps.