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A film festival devoted to refugee crises
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/12/2017
» The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will host the 7th Refugee Film Festival Bangkok 2017, which runs from tomorrow until Dec 10 at Paragon Cineplex. Admission is free, but advanced registration is required at the UNHCR Facebook page.
Finding your inner existentialist
Life, Published on 26/10/2022
» The Unfolding Kafka Festival returns next month with one-of-a-kind artists who will share their intimate experiences that may be surreal and absurd, yet touch on the humane.
New Zealand film festival makes Thai debut
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 06/10/2016
» To celebrate the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between New Zealand and Thailand, the first-ever New Zealand Film Festival will be held in Bangkok from Friday until Sunday.
Artists, activists unite over chicken rights
Life, Published on 23/02/2023
» A call for an end to unethical chicken farming will be channelled through different forms of art during the "Egg – E – Egg Aargh: Chicken Art Festival" which will take place in front of Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Pathumwan intersection, on Saturday from 4-9pm.
EU Film Festival offers a rich mix
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/06/2016
» June has been a very busy month for film festival enthusiasts. We've so far had the LBGT Film Festival, the Bangkok Silent Film Festival (ending today at Scala), the Singapore Film Festival, and the Human Rights Film Festival -- all in the past two weeks. Now, the last cine-fest of the month arrives today at SF CentralWorld: the annual European Union Film Festival 2016 (EUFF).
Dorian Gray featured at festival
Life, Published on 24/10/2017
» Culture Collective Studio will present two new productions as part of the Bangkok Theatre Festival next month, starting with The Picture Of Dorian Gray, on Nov 2 at 7pm, and Nov 3-5 at 8pm.
Bolder line-up at Luang Prabang Film Festival
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 09/10/2015
» Entering its sixth year, the Luang Prabang Film Festival marches on. This year LPFF, the only film event in the historic town on the bank of the Mekong, will take place from Dec 5-9, with around 40 feature films from across Southeast Asia.
A very Mozart festival
Life, Published on 14/01/2016
» The most significant feature of the interesting and varied programme served up in the ninth "Mozart And More" festival at the Thailand Cultural Centre Small Hall was the display of talented young musicians taking part. Three concerts were staged over successive nights on Jan 4-6, commemorating the Day of the Passing of Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana, the "Patron Saint" of classical music in Thailand, who died in January eight years ago.
Deep in the paradox
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 25/05/2022
» In Cairo, a religious student at the prestigious Al-Azhar Islamic University is recruited by secret police to infiltrate a Muslim Brotherhood cell. In Mashad, a holy city in Iran, a serial killer prowls a seedy suburb and strangles head-scarfed prostitutes. In the first film, bloodlust officials torture dissidents with abandon. In the second film, religion is evoked and the name of God is cited as a justification for murder. This begs the obvious question: Will Boy From Heaven be banned in Egypt, and Holy Spider Iran?
In Cannes, it's cinema as usual
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/05/2022
» After the cancellation in 2020 and a bump to the month of July in 2021 -- with smaller attendance as international travel was still interrupted -- the Cannes Film Festival returns to its usual mid-May slot, keyed up and fully prepped to show the world that it's cinema, and the cinema business, as usual.