Sorayos Prapapan
Directing
Biography
Sorayos Prapapan’s short films have screened at more than 70 film festivals. He is now working on his first feature film, which received the Hubert Bals Script Development Fund.
Known For

Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave—the birthplace of his first life.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

After Hassan discovers Zidik living alone on the streets, he takes him in and cares for him like a son. Zidik now works together with Hassan in the junkyard but both men are stuck in the past. 15 years ago, they lost their loved ones to a virus that turned people violent. Hassan often "forgets" that the virus killed his wife, while Zidik still remembers his sister attacking his mother and his father sacrificing himself to save Zidik. He also often thinks of Zooey, the girl he met at the orphanage he briefly stayed at before being kicked out by the evil Kak Lily. Meanwhile, Dr. Rahman, a disgraced scientist who previously managed to contain the virus, manufactures a new strain of zombie virus to create chaos. Amid this new zombie outbreak, Zidik encounters a zombified Zooey who tries to attack him but she slowly begins to remember who he is. Zidik then gets taken prisoner by Dr. Rahman when the doctor discovers that he is immune to the virus.
Zombitopia

Visiting the hotel where his parents met during the Vietnam War, an engineer finds its twisting halls alive with restless memories of the past.
Morrison

Arnold is a clever student who has won many academic awards. One day, he meets Bee who has an underground business of helping students to cheat their exams. Bee asks Arnold to join his cheating ring and offers him a lot of money. While Arnold is considering working with Bee, at his school, many students are not happy with the school’s disrespect of their freedom and they organize a big protest.
Arnold Is a Model Student

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

A spiritual time-shifting drama following a woman from her carefree 20s in 1960s rural Thailand to present-day Bangkok as an older army general's wife.
Anatomy of Time

Near a coastal village of Thailand, a local fisherman rescues a stranger, who does not speak a word, offers him his friendship and names him Thongchai. When the fisherman suddenly disappears at sea, Thongchai slowly begins to take over his friend's life—his house, his job and his marriage.
Manta Ray

When a rare earth plant is being built near a coastal town, its inhabitants fall into despair, fearful of its radioactive effects.
River of Exploding Durians

Four high school boys driven by very different reasons, end up praying before the Luang Poo at the spirit house near their school, promising to give the idol a Thai dance if their wishes come true. The boys enlist Nut a professional dancer to teach them some moves.
Tang Wong

Ang, a transgender sex worker with a pretty, feminine voice is assigned a special mission as an undercover spy. She disguises herself as a cisgender man to enter into a romantic relationship with Jit, a belligerent yet idealistic student activist with an evil voice.
Red Aninsri; Or, Tiptoeing on the Still Trembling Berlin Wall

A drama depicting life in different paths. As two men delve deep down in search for what could heal their pains, through the path of imagination, they see themselves in each other.
Vanishing Point

Village chief Tan is busy. His wife and best friend Lai have mysteriously disappeared and an undocumented worker is dead. While awaiting their return, Tan and Lai's daughter, Sandy, develop an unlikely friendship that opens old wounds and examines the nature of love and regret.
The Second Life of Thieves

Nicky has just graduated with a degree in the arts. He asks his friend Koi to be the model for a photoshoot, where she has to wear a costume that won’t show her face. Later, while having dinner together, they talk about their relationship, jobs and among others about the beginning of #MeToo.
Friend with Benefits, Without Benefits

Squish! is a meditation on the self through lurid and liquid forms; filtered through both old and foreseeable technology informed by Thai animation history and contemporary culture, and a constant process of constructing and deforming new selves to simulate ‘movements’. By extrapolating and redefining the terms of ‘movement’, be it through psychological, physical or political understandings, the work interweaves the medium of animation with a state of depression.
Squish!

The voice of the people is often neglected, as is sound in film, which the audience doesn’t care about. Two sound recordists are working on the final mix of a short film. Will their sound be heard by someone?
Death of the Sound Man

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

A filmmaker's life isn't an easy one. Write a screenplay, develop a project, wrap it all in a shiny package, pitch it to producers. And in the meantime try to survive and not forget how to actually shoot a film.
Dossier of the Dossier
Hyper-realistic minidrama. An afternoon in the life of fish processing plant labourer Wawa Kai, one of the many migrants from Myanmar working in factories in Thailand. The film follows her every move, revealing what looks like a routine day, but in fact it's a scary one for her, as she reports a crime.
Overseas

A tour guide and also a hotel rep automated voice, Kanya, leads her foreign guest, Alex, through a beach town in the east of Thailand called Bangsaen. Since Kanya's presentation is overtly aestheticized and strictly regimented, Alex decides to explore the town by himself, fantasizing to get out of the frame.
A Room with a Coconut View

Based on a true story, "Pid pokati mai" is a reflection on human life during the Covid-19 pandemic and, also, under the Emergency Decree. "Pid pokati mai" follows many characters from different scenarios who share the same awkward situation.