terra di tutti art festival
Social cinema and performing arts from the Global South
9th special edition for the European Year for Development 2015 | 7-11 october
AUNTIE MAAM HAS NEVER HAD A PASSPORT
Sorayos Prapapan | Thailand | 2014 | 14'
Auntie Maam is a foot masseuse. She is also a freelance actress in Thai independent films. One day, one of the films she played is chosen by a film festival in Europe. The film director asks her to join the trip to the festival Auntie Maam has never had a passport. She consults Kaen, her nephew how to get one.
Sorayos Prapapan was born in 1986 in Bangkok. He had his education in Film and Photography at Thammasat University. After he graduated, he started working as a production assistant for the Palme Dʼor winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010). He also attended a lot of international workshop such as Asian Film Academy 2013 (Busan International Film Festival) ,Generation Campus 2013 (Moscow International Film Festival). His short film Boonrerm (2013,17 Min) been selected for more than 40 international film festival including International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014,Busan International Short Film Festival 2014 and also winner of Binisaya Film Festival,Philipinies(Asian Category). His short film Auntie Maam has never had a Passport won the Special Mention Prize from Thai Short Film and Video Festival 2014 and been selected for International Film Festival Rotterdam and many more international film festival.His latest short "a Souvenir from Switzerland" Selected for Fribourg International Film Festival,Switzerland (Competition) His First Feature Length Project "Arnold is a Model Student" Selected for Produire Au Sud 2014 (Bangkok Edition) and Ties That Bind 2015.