Bangkok Art and Culture Centre joins with Films Forum to present Cinema Diverse, a special program screening monthly through Dec 22 at the BACC auditorium (5/F, BACC, Rama 1 Rd., Bangkok, 02-214-6630. BTS National Stadium). The films selected come from different countries and offer interesting perspectives regarding culture and society. After each screening, there will be a Q&A session with the director to enable discussion of the film and cultural exchange. The schedule is as follows:

Jul 28. August Drizzle (Sri Lanka): Named in the New Currents selection at last year’s Busan International Film Festival and winner of two awards at the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema in France this year; In a drought-plagued Sri Lankan village, a woman mortician joins forces with an epileptic architect to build a crematorium she believes will bring her the respect she craves.

Oct 20. Nino (Philippines): The story of a once-illustrious Filipino family whose members have fallen on hard times; following former opera darling Celia and her brother Gaspar, an ex-congressman, as they contemplate the sale of their ancestral mansion.

Nov 17. The Clay Bird (Bangladesh): Set in the late 1960s, in East Pakistan, on the eve of the violent revolution that created the independent state of Bangladesh; a small town must adjust to the heightened tensions that come with great political change.

Dec 15. Tears of the Black Tiger (Thailand): Directed by Wisit Sasanatieng, this parody-come-homage to the Western, with nods to old-fashioned Thai melodrama, is told in overripe pastel colors. Dum promises his lover Rumpoey that they will run away together and get married against the wishes of their families, but when he gets caught up with some bandits, Rampoey is married off to a policeman who becomes Dum’s deadly enemy.

All films will be screened in their original language with English subtitles. Free admission. For more information, visit www.bacc.or.th