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The Thai Short Film and Video Festival returns in Bangkok this week
Support the new generation of Thai film-makers.
Yves Saint Laurent
Elle Fashion Film Festival returns in Bangkok this week
The much-awaited annual Elle Fashion Film Festival returns at SFX Cinema Emporium from Aug 1-9. The event features 20 screenings of nine movies and documentaries related to the world’s fashion...
Menstrual Synchrony
Fresh grad films go on show at the BACC this weekend
The annual showcase event for thesis works by fresh graduates from the Department of Motion Pictures and Still Photography at Chulalongkorn University, Kangjor 21 End Slate, returns at the BACC this...
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Optimus Prime returns in Bangkok cinemas today, but it's not your only choice
Four years after the Invasion of Chicago, the Autobots rise again, today (June 26).
Where Can I Find Seripap?
Film festival this weekend to take a cheeky look at Thailand's political situation
Aimed to lift the gloom surrounding the current political situation, the movie lovers’ group Sharescreen and The Reading Room will screen six new and old short films which tackle the current...
Grace of Monaco
Slammed in Cannes, Grace of Monaco is one of five new films opening in Bangkok today
The latest Cannes victim joins a remake of famous TV ghost lakorn Hong Hoon as five new films open today in Bangkok cinemas. Watch the trailers below.
Maleficent
It's Angelina Jolie's Maleficent vs Tukky's vengeful ghost in cinemas today. Watch all the trailers.
Robert Stromberg retells the Sleepy Beauty fairy tale while Viking warrior Hiccup returns to train his dragon, along with yet another two homegrown ghost comedies.
Monsieur Lazhar
Bangkok hosts Refugee Film Festival
Coinciding with World Refugee Day on June 20, this global touring film festival by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) returns to Bangkok for the fourth time this Jun 19-24....
The Taxi Meter
Young directors to get political at short film festival starting this weekend
Aimed at showcasing short films and documentaries that make statements about the future of Thailand and its politics, Thai Aurora at The Horizon by Streamline Film will screen 14 political shorts by...
Edge of Tomorrow
Tom Cruise stuck in a time loop and five more new movies in Bangkok cinemas today
Watch the trailers, make your choice. 
Kafka Festival launches in Bangkok this week
The Goethe-Institut Thailand commemorates 90 years since the death of iconic author Franz Kafka, best known for novels like The Trial, The Castle and Metamorphosis, with a three-day festival from Jun...
Bleak Night
Filmvirus K-Poppop screens free Korean movies every Sunday for a month
Duangkamol Film House and the Thammasat University Libraries have united to screen Korean movies every Sunday from Jun 1-Jul 6 at the Rewat Buddhinan Room (U2/F, Pridi Panomyong Library, Thammasat...
A Royal Affair
The Great Beauty headlines European Union Film Festival starting today in Bangkok
The annual film festival by the Delegations of the European Union to Thailand returns at SF World Cinema (7/F, CentralWorld, Ratchadamri Rd., 02-268-8888) from May 23-Jun 5. The program selects 20...
Godzilla
Godzilla roars into Bangkok, along with two more Hollywood movies opening today—watch the trailers
The powerful beast awakes, but does size matter? Here are the new films opening today (May 15).
Nontawat Numbenchapol on the haunting truth behind his new feature documentary, By The River
Awarded a special mention at the 66th Locarno International Film Festival, By The River is the latest feature documentary by Nontawat Numbenchapol. The director, whose previous work Boundary (2013)...
Life Architecually
Movies on Design kicks off in Bangkok today—watch all the trailers
Film fans and design devotees rejoice as the Movies on Design screenings return this week at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center (BACC). Held as part of Bangkok Design Festival 2014, the event screens...
The Amazing Spider Man 2
Jamie Foxx fights Andrew Garfield along with 3 other films to catch this week
Find out if The Amazing Spider Man 2 lives up to its name and if the critics' fave Le Week-End lives up to the bill (both out May 1), plus a couple of free screenings to catch.
The Railway Man
Scarlett Johansson and Paul Walker star as Colin Firth comes to Thailand in five new films opening today
Choose from Sca Jo's alien preying on pedestrians in Under the Skin, Colin Firth's portrayal of a former POW who worked on the notorious death railway in Thailand in The Railway Man...
Martka
Bangkok International Student Film Festival kicks off this week
The big annual international film festival returns to showcase works selected from over a hundred films submitted by student directors worldwide, along with film-related workshops and classes held by...
The Swedish Film Festival returns in Bangkok this week—here are the highlights
Returning for the third time, the Swedish Film Festival, hosted by the Embassy of Sweden in Bangkok, selects seven very different Swedish films to be screened for free at SFX Cinema (6F, Emporium,...
Transcendence
Johnny Depp or Aaron Paul? Five new films in cinemas today—watch all the trailers
Coinciding with the Heartbleed bug, Johnny Depp takes full control of the world's technology in Transcendence, while Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul feels the Need for Speed alongside three...
Noah
Noah and The Lunchbox headline five new films for your Songkran weekend—watch the trailers
Life of Pi's Irrfan Khan returns in The Lunchbox while Russell Crowe and Emma Watson head a star-studded cast in Noah, alongside three other new movies opening today (Apr 10) in Bangkok...