Original Title: ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ
Director: Apichatpong Weerasathakul
Runtime: 113 minutes
Country: UK, Thailand, Germany, France, Spain
Language: Isan, Thai with English subtitles
Rating: PG

Awards

PALME D’OR (Best Film)
2010 Cannes Film Festival

BEST FILM
5th Asian Film Awards

Synopsis
On a remote northern Thai farm, a dying man spends his final days with his family, a forest spirit, and the ghost of his wife. Chalermrat Kaweewattana’s sound design transforms the rural landscape into a living, breathing character, where birdsong, rustling leaves, and distant echoes carry memory and the supernatural. Apichatpong’s vision blends sound and image, creating a meditative rhythm where life, death, and past lives resonate through every sonic detail.

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