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Rainbow on the silver screen
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 28/05/2018
» Some of the many LGBTI films now playing or coming soon to Thailand
The roles of a lifetime
Muse, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 09/09/2017
» 'I think I'd like to bring a cassette tape back," a tall figure next to me said as we were discussing what we would like to bring back from 1990s.
Laos turns up a winner
Muse, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 29/04/2017
» Stepping off of the red carpet, the gorgeous Lao star Vilouna Phetmany -- known by her stage name Tot Lina -- began to greet us in perfect Thai. On Wednesday, she attended the gala opening of the Bangkok Asean Film Festival, shining among the regional superstars. Tomorrow the festival will screen the film she stars in, a new-wave Lao horror called Nong Hak, before it goes into general release on May 18.
LGBT stories get rare screen time
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 16/08/2016
» How often is it that international LGBT films get a screening in Thailand? Not often at all, except when there's a film festival. This week, wonderfully strange as it may be, we're seeing not just one but two LGBT films on our silver screens. And the two couldn't be more different.