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502:(2004) is split into two separate narratives: the first half of the film is grounded in reality and focuses on the intimate relationship between two men in Northern Thailand and the second half shifts into an allegorical fantasy featuring a tiger in a forest, that draws on Thai folklore. Queer film scholars Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt, argue that through the shift from realism to fantasy just as the two male lead characters are about to kiss in front of a Thai flag, director Apichatpong Weerasethakul highlights the limitations of non-normative sexual desire in modern rural Northern Thailand. Schoonover and Galt also argue that the film is a dipthyc, meaning that the film consists of two parallel narratives that are "hinged" together and lead the audience to create a "third space" where the two film narratives are compared against each other. The film won the Jury Prize, or Prix du Jury, at the 2004 582:, receiving a master’s degree in 1997. Weerasethakul began his career in directing experimental short films and documentary shorts. He founded his own production company in 1999, called Kick the Machine productions and began making full length films both documentary and fiction. Weerasethakul’s films are commonly classified as independent art-house cinema and have garnered global critical acclaim through international film festival screenings and awards. Weerasethakul, who is gay himself, is known to explore themes of sexuality, gender, religion, and politics through fantasy and allegory in his films. While the majority of his films lack clear definitions of LGBT identity, queer desire is often central to Weerasethakul’s film narratives. He is also known for drawing on his experiences growing up in rural Northern Thailand. Some notable Apichatpong Weerasethakul films include: 459:: Satree Lek) is a film released in 2000 that is based on the true story of a Thai volleyball team making it to the national championships four years prior in 1996 and marked the beginning of a new era of queer film making in Thailand. The film was the highest-grossing Thai film the year it was released and the second highest-grossing film in Thailand of all time. The plot of the film follows an underdog volleyball team composed of kathoey and feminine queer men who make it to the Thai national volleyball championships in the face of discrimination with the help of their lesbian coach. Film scholar, Serhat Unaldi, stated that 259:(1985) was the first Thai film to center a queer storyline and the first Thai film to feature a kathoey actress as the leading role in a film. The film garnered substantial commercial success and was a top earning film in the box office the year that it was released in theaters. The plot revolves around a kathoey cabaret performer, Somying, who falls in love with an aspiring singer who leaves her for a cisgender woman. The loss of the love of her life leads Somying to commit suicide on stage during her final cabaret performance. The film’s director, Pisal Akkrasenee, a heterosexual man, stated in an interview that he wanted 245:(1968). This era of queer film was dominated by narratives that showed queer characters as people deserving sympathy from the audience and featured storylines dominated by stereotypes about the lives of queer people centering loss and depression, and often ending in the suicide of the queer character. Films in the first wave also often explicitly named “bad karma” as an explanation for the source of a character’s queerness. Thai cinema scholar, Oradol Kaewprasert, identified the following three films as the seminal films of the “first wave of Thai queer cinema.” 28: 1684: 1579: 1564: 309:(1968) and was named one of the 100 essential Thai films by the National Film Archive of Thailand. The plot of the film is similar to that of the play from which it was adapted, in which the storyline revolves around a birthday party. Through the main character, Toey’s, birthday party, the film depicts varying representations of male queerness in the eight party guest who make up the films other principal characters. 484:(2014) being featured in international film festivals. Film scholar, Sophia Siddiqi, argues that some independent Thai filmmakers choose to make art-house films in order to include restricted explicit sexual content that is censored by the Thai government. All Thai films must be submitted to the Film Censorship Board, which is a part of the Ministry of Culture, before being distributed to commercial movie theaters. 467:(2000) stands in contrast to previous films portraying kathoey characters which centered loss and elicited sympathy from the audience. Academic and film scholar, Brett Farmer, points to this film as a turning point for queer cinema in Thailand and as the beginning of the still very popular and commercial kathoey comedy genre of the Thai film industry. 431:
successful in their endeavor. Film scholars, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt, argue that by placing queer characters in sports films queerness can become the source of the underdog narrative. Sports films have become a popular sub-genre of Thai queer films through box-office record-breaking films including,
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their Western counterparts. Film scholar, Brett Farmer, uses the term "vernacular queerness" to discuss how phet is represented in Thai queer cinema, highlighting how many films illustrate non-normative sexual desire and behavior but do not define the relationships nor the character's sexual identity.
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Within the genre of Thai queer cinema exist many sub-genres in both independent and commercial films. The sports film sub-genre was one of the first Thai queer cinema sub-genres to garner commercial success during the new wave of Thai cinema. Sports films center storylines revolving around sports and
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Sports films are films where sports, either individual or team, are central to the film's narrative. Many times sports films feature an underdog narrative, where a character or group of characters who are presented as unlikely to achieve success overcome an obstacle and by the end of the film become
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revolves around the story of Mew (Witwisit Hiranyawongkul) and Tong (Mario Maurer) childhood friends who go on to have a romantic relationship. Film scholar, Brett Farmer, uses the term "vernacular queerness" to discuss the relationships portrayed in the film; meaning, that while the film does not
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in Bangkok before beginning his filmmaking career. Through his films, Pansittivorakul, who is openly gay, commonly explores discrimination and oppression of expressions of gender, sexuality, and religion deemed not acceptable by the Thai State. He began his filmmaking career in documentary shorts
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was another factor in the increased representation of queer individuals in Thai film. The new Thai government, installed after the coup, was more open and liberal than the previous culturally conservative government that was known for censoring films that did not represent a proper Thai morality.
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coined the term "gendered sexuality" to discuss the lack of separation between the concepts of gender and sexuality in Thailand. Jackson argues that for this reason, while the use of some English LGBT terminology has been adopted in Thailand, the meaning carried by these terms is not the same as
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according to an interview with Pansittivorakul. Due to explicit scenes featuring queer eroticism the film was not distributed in mainstream movie theaters in Thailand, as explicit depictions of both heterosexual and same-sex sexual acts are censored by the Thai government. The film was instead
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and idealization of Thai history and culture. This period marked a turning point for Thai cinema in that films began to reflect new realities and global influences. Beginning in 1997, the Thai film industry drastically increased in size, slowly becoming the largest film industry in the region.
289:(1985), twin brother. The twin brother attempts to seek revenge on Somying’s former lover, Boonterm, for his role in Somying’s suicide, however, in the process Boonterm falls in love with Somying’s twin brother. The film ends with Boonterm deciding to reject all sexuality and become a monk. 212:(2014) have garnered critical success in the international film festival circuit. Thai film directors, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Thunska Pansittivorakul, have been recognized both in Thailand and internationally as key figures in the Thai queer cinema genre. 475:
Art-house films are films that are usually independently produced and not intended for a mass market. The art-house film sub-genre is the most internationally critically acclaimed of any Thai queer cinema film genre with many films from this genre, including
172:(1987), part of the first wave of Thai queer cinema, and continued through the post-1997 Thai Film Revival, also called the new wave of Thai cinema. Currently, queer narratives are very popular in the Thai film industry. Prominent Thai film critic for the 363:
The teen drama sub-genre, sometimes called melodramas, depict non-heterosexual relationships between teens and young adults. This sub-genre of Thai Queer Cinema has become popular since the commercial success of the first Thai queer teen drama,
196:(2003). Teen dramas, also called melodramas, are another popular sub-genre of queer cinema in Thailand that portray the non-normative relationship and gender expression of teenagers. Prominent queer teen drama films include 664:(2008) explores religious and military tensions between Buddhists and Muslims in the south of Thailand through depictions of explicit queer sexual intimacy between a young couple, a buddhist boy and a muslim boy. 229:(1985). This film marked the beginning of what Thai cinema scholar, Oradol Kaewprasert, calls the “first wave of Thai queer cinema.” Other prominent films included in the “first wave of Thai queer cinema” include 151:
Thai language scholar, Monruedee Laphimon, defines phet as gendered desires, expressions, behaviors, and sexual activities within a spectrum of masculinity and femininity. Thai gender and sexuality scholar
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released in 1997 is viewed by many film scholars as the first film in the new wave of Thai cinema. In 2000, the underdog sports film about a volleyball team made up Kathoey and gay players,
463:(2000) is one of the first Thai films where kathoey and queer people are depicted positively and where community between queer people leads to character happiness and success. The plot of 652:(2004), won the grand prize at the 4th Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival in 2004. Other notable and critically acclaimed full-length documentaries by Pansittivorakul include 422:
as one of the first examples of what he calls "independent commercial films," low budget films that have widespread commercial success and become top-grossing films at the box office.
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in 2007. Thai pop culture scholar, Amporn Jirattikorn, argues that the popularity of this film sub-genre with the heterosexual teen girl demographic has led to the production of many
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was one of the first Thai films to portray a romantic relationship between two teenage boys and one of the first on-screen same-sex kisses. Film scholar, Brett Farmer, identified
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The new wave of Thai cinema, identified by film scholars Mary J. Ainsley and Katarzyna Ancuta, began following the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis which led to an increase in
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is a category of Thai films that in some way represent non-normative gender and sexuality. In other words, the narratives explored in Thai queer cinema go beyond
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explicitly define the relationship between Mew and Tong as a gay relationship, it explores the possibilities of love outside of heterosexual relationships.
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explores the parallels between the marginalization of Thai gay men and Burmese refugees in Thailand at the hands of the Thai nationalist state.
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619:(2000) and founded his own production company called Sleep of Reason Films in 2012. Notable Pansittivorakul films include: 520:
is a film released in 2014 and is Thai film director, Thunska Pansittivorakul's, first full-length fiction film. The film
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is considered the first queer film of the new wave of Thai cinema and also a turning point for queer cinema in Thailand.
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Farmer, Brett (2018). "Chapter 8: Queer Cinema - The Iron Ladies". In Ainsley, Mary J.; Ancuta, Katarzyna (eds.).
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is a film released in 2004 and directed by Thai film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The film
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Below is a list of Thai films that in some way represent non-normative gender and sexuality.
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a science fiction film set in a dystopian future, was in some part inspired by
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The first Thai film to feature a central queer narrative was the film
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Aphichatphong Wirasetthakun) is a Thai film director who was born in
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graduating with a B.A. in 1994 and then studied film making at the
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television dramas in Thailand. Notable queer teen dramas include
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Thai queer cinema had its start in the 1980s with films such as
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as one of the leading producers of queer cinema in the world.
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Rak Haeng Sayam) is a film released in 2007. The plot of
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Index

Cinema of Thailand

List of Thai films
Actresses
Male actors
Film directors
Horror films
Queer films
Cinemas in Thailand
Films shot in Thailand
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heterosexual
gender binary
queer
LGBT
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RTGS
Peter A. Jackson
Bangkok Post
Thailand
The Iron Ladies
Beautiful Boxer
The Boys in the Band
Thai nationalism
2006 Thai coup d'etat
Prime Minister
Thaksin Shinawatra
boys' love

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