FILM TITLE

NETPAC Award Winners. Solids By The Seashore

18+

11th March 2024 | 04:30 PM
Stein Auditorium

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Image-Description
Country
Thailand
Genre

Drama, LQBTQ+

Language
Thai and Southern Thai with English subtitles
Duration
99 mins
Director

Patiparn Boontarig

Festival And Awards

Busan International Film Festival - New Currents (LG OLED New Currents Award & NETPAC Award); Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival; Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, New talent Competition; QCinema, Asian Next Wave Competition; Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival

Synopsis

Southern Thai town. On a once-sandy beach eroded by high tides and now replaced by artificial rock sea walls, two young women meet. Shati is a local Muslim woman from a conservative family. Fon is an activist-turned-visual artist, in town for  her new art exhibition. The deeper they get to know each other, the bigger Shati’s internal conflict with her traditional roots - that forbids same-sex relationship - becomes. Caught between fear and desire, she is reminded of the old cautionary tales from her childhood told by her late and beloved grandmother.

During Shati’s pivotal moment, on Fon’s last night in town, the strange otherworldly occurrences in the tales of Shati’s grandmother gradually start to happen. A storm is brewing. Whether it’s all a dream or not, Shati is making a decision to forge a path for herself, and comes to terms with who she is.

  • Cast

    Ilada Pitsuwan, Rawipa Srisanguan

  • Producer

    Chatchai Chaiyon, Mai Meksawan

  • Screenplay

    Patiparn Boontarig, Kalil Pitsuwan

  • Cinematography

    Benjamaporn Rattanaraungdetch

  • Editing

    Nisarat Meechok

  • Sound

    Ninat Nikachi, Kridsada Donneprai

  • Music

    Apichai Tragoolpadetgraiai, Sathapat Teeranitayapap