After the resounding success of Thai films at last year’s Busan International Film Festival, this year sees two more Thai films premiered in the festival’s New Currents competition. One of them, The Isthmus is written and directed by two university film lecturers, Sopawan Boonnimitra and Peerachai Kerdsint, who started the project back in 2010. Starring Sangthong Gate U-Thong, it tells the story of a mother, Da, who after her Burmese maid dies, sees her eight-year-old daughter mysteriously lose her mother tongue and speak only Burmese. Sa takes her little girl to a Burmese doctor at Kra Isthmus in Ranong where they encounter a different world within the Burmese community. The film is also set to screen at The 11th Annual World Film Festival of Bangkok during Nov 15-24.