Mekong Hotel
Country: Thailand
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Recently featured in Toronto Film Festival's “wavelength” sidebar of experimental art films, it is the gifted director's follow-up to Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. This unique film explores the theme of reincarnation as it shifts between fact and fiction in a calming rhythm of ebb and flow. In a hotel situated along the Mekong River, on the border of Thailand and Laos, a filmmaker rehearses a movie expressing the bonds between a vampire-like mother and daughter. (2012; 59 min) Preceded by Arrythmia, by Jeremy Fleishman. Presented in collaboration with Silk Screen Asian Film Festival.