The 9th edition of this annual festival was postponed from Nov last year to Feb-Mar 2012 due to Bangkok’s flooding. But The 10th World Film Festival of Bangkok is right on schedule, running Nov 16-25 at The Esplanade Cineplex. The festival will open with Apichartpong Weerasethakul’s Mekong Hotel, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Other Thai films joining the festival include Elephant Shaman (2012), a documentary about an 85-year-old considered our last living shaman (directed by Shane Bunnag). On the short film front, look out for A Belt and A Comb, Eclipse, The Farmer and Ja Daw’s Choice. As for international reels, we’re looking forward to All We Ever Wanted, the 2010 Dutch movie by director Sarah Mathilde Domogala which looks at what goes on behind a seemingly perfect urban life. Return To Burma (Taiwan and Myanmar, 2011) is a docu-drama following Xing-Hong, a Burmese who returned home soon after the recent elections, having spent over 10 years working in Taipei. Le Havre (Finland, France and Germany, 2011), 2011 Cannes nominee and French official selection for the Oscars, is set in a major French port, where an old shoeshiner takes in an African boy. See the full lineup at www.worldfilmbkk.com