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Aditya Assarat

Aditya Assarat

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Biography

Aditya Assarat is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, producer and cinematographer.

Known For

Last Summer
6.2

A story about three youngsters who are haunted by the spirit of their teen-idol friend, Joy, who died under mysterious circumstances in Last Summer.

Last Summer

2013
Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy.
7.4

Mary is in her last course of school. She'll confront sudden changes in her life, loving relations and friendship. Based on some tweets of an anonymous girl.

Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy.

2013
Insects in the Backyard
5.5

In the absence of their parents, Johnny and Jennifer are being brought up by their sister Tanya, an overdressed transvestite. Both kids mess up their pursuit of romance, and both look for ways to break away from the family home and become independent.

Insects in the Backyard

2011
I Am the Beauty of Your Beauty, I Am the Fear of Your Fear
5.7

Gita, a young woman in search of a life purpose, leaves her hometown in China for Malaysia. As she struggles to come to terms with her past and identity, Gita devotes herself to an intense martial arts training course—turning inwards and arriving to groundbreaking epiphanies about herself.

I Am the Beauty of Your Beauty, I Am the Fear of Your Fear

2024
Bangkok Stories
1.0

The film features six themes of love in Bangkok's famous districts: Mo Chit, Yaowarat, Khaosan, Phahurat, Silom, and Sukhumvit in the hands of six different directors.

Bangkok Stories

2016
Wonderful Town
6.1

Local girl Na runs a small hotel where every day is more of less the same until Ta arrives one day. Ta is an architect from the city who has come to oversee the building of a new development and very slowly the two build a friendship that develops into something more romantic.

Wonderful Town

2007
Letters from the South
5.4

Six filmmakers present six short films about the experiences of Chinese immigrants. Shot across Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Myanmar, the anthology depicts the crisis of identity that accompanies international migration.

Letters from the South

2013
Distance
5.7

Three stories which each focus on one of three types of relationships: family, friendship, and love. The first story is about conflicted manager on a business trip who is intrigued by an elderly worker and investigates his life. The second story is about a young father who receives a letter that brings him to a foreign land, where old emotions come unburied. The last story is about a visiting professor from overseas who sets a student's heart fluttering, while having to deal with his own.

Distance

2016
36
7.6

A young location scout meets the art director of her project in a day they will keep in their memories for a while, each for their own reasons.

36

2012
Ten Years Thailand
6.1

A collection of short films by five Thai directors imagining their country ten years into the future.

Ten Years Thailand

2018
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3.2

Thai directors give their take on Thailand's capital city of Bangkok.

Sawasdee Bangkok

2009
Phuket
N/A

The story of the friendship between a young Korean actress and a limousine driver at a hotel in Thailand.

Phuket

2009
Hi-So
4.9

Ananda has returned home from abroad. Unsure of his career plans, he accepts an invitation to act in a new movie for a famous director. During the filming in a small seaside town, Zoe, his American girlfriend from University, arrives for a week-long visit.

Hi-So

2010
6 to 6
4.0

A man cleaning an upscale house is joined by his mother and girlfriend for lunch. The women later help him clean, watching him with unease when he takes a phone call. Aditya Assarat's short film unravels restless and insecure emotions of love where the dusty, empty space of a house and its fluttering white sheets block our view.

6 to 6

2011
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6.3

In a remote Thai village, a man gets a call informing him that his son died in a crash. He needs to bring the body back and give a decent funeral, but he can't afford to do both.

Motorcycle

2000
Bangkok Blues
N/A

Louis and his girlfriend Fern are on the rocks. He finds some secret messages she left hidden in the pages of his books. Louis drags his best friend Ananda over to Fern's apartment to confront her. He doesn't want to keep finding these messages years after they have broken up. But that is precisely why she left them there. A short film about preserving old memories, originally appearing as part of the omnibus film Sawasdee Bangkok.

Bangkok Blues

2009
3 Friends
5.8

3 Friends is an experimental fiction/documentary film conceived and directed by 3 friends.

3 Friends

2005
The Scala
6.5

This documentary explores the cinematic magic of Bangkok's last remaining stand-alone movie theater through the eyes of its long-serving staff.

The Scala

2015
All Powerful!
N/A

Auntie Nid's legs hurt. Kane stops by to visit. He is bringing her something. Something amazing.

All Powerful!

2014
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N/A

Beat is turning 40 and finds himself at a crossroads in life. A well-respected professor, he resigned his position at the university a few years ago over his support for the student protesters. Now living quietly in Khao Yai, a small town three hours outside of Bangkok, his life is turned upside down when his best friend Ong comes to visit. Beat finds himself drawn back in to the teenage hijinks that always unfolds when the two of them are together. As the weekend spirals into a drunken ruin, leaving a trail of hurt feelings and broken hearts for everyone involved, Beat is forced to reevaluate his life and the principles he has always tried to live by. Ong however, doesn’t share his best friend’s disappointment. He tells Beat that he cannot just withdraw from life. He has no choice but to live it, mistakes and all.

The Thonglor Kids