Thunska Pansittivorakul

Isan Odyssey (2025)

Isan, the largest and most impoverished region of Thailand, has long been a thorn in the kingdom's flesh with its legacy of pro-democratic movements. Isan Odyssey takes viewers on an enlightening, music-filled journey through the forgotten pages of Thailan ...

Khon Boys (2023)

A documentary recording the lives of Khon students in their last years of study. They spent six years under the rules of the military regime after the 2014 coup d'etat. The coup granted the regime power to change many things, especially education which bec ...

Damnatio Memoriae (2023)

This documentary, composed of various video clips and footage, is an exploration to search for some missing jigsaw pieces in history. Something that turned someone into a hero, or an absolute jerk. Some things are hidden under the carpet, from Hiroshima to ...

Danse Macabre (2021)

Danse Macabre is a dance that explores deaths that are remembered and forgotten in history, including those of kings, citizens, and stateless people. In Thailand, many deaths were suspicious in nature over the past 90 years, but nobody dared to question th ...

Avalon (2020)

Perth has broken off contact with Poon. What's left are images showing the two men's sex life. Perth was Poon's twenty years younger cinematographer. ...

Santikhiri Sonata (2019)

This film was shot in an area called Santikhiri, which means 'the Hill of Peace'. After General Prem's government came to power in the 1980s, everything—drugs, communism, corruption, human trafficking, and stateless persons—was entirely suppressed to f ...

Remember (2019)

Nang Yai Now (2019)

The film is a series of interviews with 4 living figures talking about their works involving Nang Yai, the traditional Thai Shadow Play, an artform which is dying. ...

Screaming Goats (2018)

"The southern border of Thailand is dangerous, scary, you shouldn't live there, it's full of violence." That is how it's mostly presented in the media. But what is the southern border really like? This documentary will guide you to another perspective thro ...

Homogeneous, Empty Time (2017)

What feeds nationalist ideologies? They always arise in 'empty time', asserts this documentary on nationalism in Thailand. Various groups are observed, from military cadets to pupils at a Christian boarding school. They have very different views on politic ...

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I Was Young? Ignorant? Curious! (2017)

Documentary about film school and film students in Thailand. ...

sPACEtIME (2015)

Four men travel to a place of their memory. Two of them used to date ten years ago. The story is told through an interviewer and interviewees. Past stories are unearthed and overlap with the present, leading to a new story that seems like something totally ...

Supernatural (2014)

Science fiction about a future Thailand. Futuristic, experimental, homo-erotic and with elements of a political essay. With a richness of themes and impressions that wouldn't get past the censor in Thailand. The maker doesn't mince his words and isn't afra ...

The Terrorists (2011)

A black cloak of forgetting, suppressing and covering has descended on the events that took place in Bangkok in spring 2010. Black as the night of complete darkness in which the film opens. Two men are in a fishing boat talking. One feels more than one see ...

Reincarnate (2010)

A teacher and his student go on a trip to a magical island where there is urban life and tourist attractions as well as a palace and temples. Moreover, a haunting past still gnaws, spreads, mates and mutates in a loop that cannot be eliminated. It dissolve ...

This Area Is Under Quarantine (2009)

Thunska Pansittivorakol's documentary covers three disparatae topics: Gay life & sex, the 2004 Tak Bai incident, & the 2005 execution of two Iranian teenagers. ...

Middle-earth (2007)

A white dream of a gay film maker. Two naked men on a white sofa. Yet it remains in the imagination. Pansittivorakul is the most outspoken gay filmmaker in Thailand. Or in the whole of Southeast Asia, you could say. The fact that last year he received a S ...

One True Thing (2007)

When the director want to reveal the most secret in life to close friends and mother, what will be the moment these people know the truth? The film conveys the feelings of a person who has had to lie all his life. By when the movie is finished, the directo ...

Happy Berry (2004)

Happy Berry is the name of a Bangkok boutique run by a group of trendy Thai youths, and is the nerve centre of this fly-on-the-wall documentary (the second in a trilogy entitled "Life and Love"). The camera catches the subjects indulging in all the (post) ...

Voodoo Girls (2003)

VOODOO GIRLS challenges Thailand's social taboos as filmmaker THUNSKA PANSITTIVORAKUL and his circle of college friends, talk openly about sex, gossiping and teasing each other as they discuss their past and present partners. Loaded with sexual innuendo, r ...

Avalon (2020)

Perth has broken off contact with Poon. What's left are images showing the two men's sex life. Perth was Poon's twenty years younger cinematographer. ...

sPACEtIME (2015)

Four men travel to a place of their memory. Two of them used to date ten years ago. The story is told through an interviewer and interviewees. Past stories are unearthed and overlap with the present, leading to a new story that seems like something totally ...

Reincarnate (2010)

A teacher and his student go on a trip to a magical island where there is urban life and tourist attractions as well as a palace and temples. Moreover, a haunting past still gnaws, spreads, mates and mutates in a loop that cannot be eliminated. It dissolve ...

Behind the Blur (2009)

An insightful documentary about Thai cinema, which features a colourful and long running film history, yet struggles as the industry attempts to move forward. This film examines the past and focuses on the Thai New Wave since 1997 by combining film clips, ...