Apichatpong Weerasethakul أبيشاتبونج ويراسيتاكول

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A Thai writer and director, born in Bangkok, on July 16, 1970. His parents were doctors in a hospital in the city of Khon Kaen. Apichatpong joined Khon Kaen University and got a bachelor's degree in architecture in 1994. He made his first short film a year earlier, entitled...Read more Bullet. He went to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he got a master's degree of fine arts in filmmaking in 1997. He is the only Thai to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes so far. His most important films include Syndromes and a Century (2006) and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), which won the Palme d'Or.


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  • A Thai writer and director, born in Bangkok, on July 16, 1970. His parents were doctors in a hospital in the city of Khon Kaen. Apichatpong joined Khon Kaen University and got a...Read more bachelor's degree in architecture in 1994. He made his first short film a year earlier, entitled Bullet. He went to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he got a master's degree of fine arts in filmmaking in 1997. He is the only Thai to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes so far. His most important films include Syndromes and a Century (2006) and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), which won the Palme d'Or.

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