Yongyoot Thongkongtoon
Best of Times
Some people spend most of their lives trying to forget their first love, but some spend a lifetime reminiscing about their last love. Since men are not goldfish, they don’t easily forget their past loves, it’s just that sometimes it hurts too much to want to remember. Nevertheless, everlasting love is always worth fighting for. ‘BEST OF TIMES’ is a romantic story involving two couples and how even the briefest of encounters with true love can leave you with the most memorable of lifelong memories.
Phobia 2
The screaming experience from 2008 is about to return again with a portmanteau horror film by the five most talented film directors. ‘Novice’ - A fourteen-year-old Pey has committed a crime, so his mom decides that he must get ordained to become a Buddhist novice to escape. Under the guise of a monk Pey remains unnoticed as a criminal. However, something deep down inside is bothering him. Will Pey's Karma catch up with him? ‘Backpackers’ – A young Japanese couple waves a 1,000 Baht note in the hope to entice passing cars to take them from Samui Island to Bangkok. Finally, a truck driver pulls over and picks them up. They have no idea what is inside the truck’s trailer. It’s something that will cause an adrenalin rush like no other. ‘In the End’ – Ter, Puak, Shin, and Aey are the movie crew of an upcoming horror movie. On the last night, Puak tells one of the cast members that, “the show must go on”. So when that she accidentally dies during filming, she makes sure to come back from the dead to play her role til the end. ‘Salvage’ – Nuch is a car dealer. She makes her living by rebuilding severely damaged cars. But little do unsuspecting bargain hunters know, beneath the new upholstery and shiny repainted exteriors are cars with horrific pasts. One night she discovers her son is missing. Reviewing the security camera tapes, she sees her son climb inside a car but nowhere on tape has him climbing out! ‘Ward’ – Arthit, a playful teenager, crashes his bike and breaks both legs. At the hospital he is moved to a shared room. In the room, there is an old man in a coma who has been waiting for his family to decide to pull the plug on his oxygen. What happens that night will make Arthit realize that being alone is always better than being around bad company. Don’t be surprised if you are addicted to fear!
Coming Soon
What kind of scenes in a horror film scares you the most? When a ghost appears totally unexpectedly? When the main character does not see the ghost sneaking up behind him? When at the very end you find out the main character was actually a ghost all along? But none of this compares to the feeling of arriving home alone and suddenly being stuck by a feeling of deja vu that you are reenacting the very same scenes in the horror movie you just saw! .. coming soon.
Hormones
Love is not like school, there is no vacation or summer break. Yet the school’s summer break is actually the time all teenagers are waiting for. That’s when young hearts begin to throb in crazy tempo and the bubbling hormones compel teenagers to do crazy things, especially when it comes to love. In this summer break, two boys are busy chasing a girl and racing to get her phone number; another boy is preparing a surprise for his secret crush; a young girl is busy learning Chinese to prepare herself for the concert of her favorite Taiwanese pop-star; and a boy is fighting the temptation to remain loyal to the love of his life.
Alone
‘Pim’ buries her past in Thailand and starts her new life with a caring and lovable husband, ‘Wee’, in Korea. Their marriage life seems to be all good and normal until she gets a call from Thailand informing that her mother has fallen very ill. Pim and Wee then fly back to her hometown to be by her mother’s side. From the first moment she steps foot into her old house, Pim experiences extremely vivid flashbacks of painful memories that show how the bittersweet relationship with her conjoined twin sister and their commitment to stay together forever transform into a repressive bond that ultimately leads to a separation. Pim finds herself constantly haunted by these lingering feelings of attachment that compels her to confront her deep dark emotions. And this is just the beginning of a horrifying realization that Pim will never be allowed to ever forget…what does not want to be forgotten!
Seasons Change
Pom's season of love began one sunny morning after high school final exam. Pom is an ordinary boy who lives a typical life, except when it comes to his love for Rock N' Roll and his extraordinary drum major skills. One girl will help him find his real place in this new world. On the first day of summer Pom follows Dao, a very popular student amongst her peers for being smart, beautiful and gifted in playing violin. She makes it into Thailand's only music school Salaya, Mahidol College which has a curriculum that is 70% music and 30% general education. Dao wants to study here because she is music oriented, but Pom wants to be here to be next to her. Dao plays the violin because it is her love, Pom gives up the drums for the timpani because of the girl. Pom imagines a bright and sunny walk down "easy" street for being fortunate enough to be in the orchestra, but instead he finds himself drenched by a torrent of difficulties when he realises that his talents in drumming can't help him in the least, when it comes to playing the timpani.
The Tin Mine
In 1949, a young student finds his life upturned. Expelled from Thailand’s top university, ‘Archin Panjabhan’ is sent away from the city by his father to the wilderness of southern Thailand. Arriving at a mining camp, he embarks on a four-year odyssey of self-discovery, a university course in life that will take from him the last days of youth and return him a gift far greater. There, on a tin dredge, among the bosses and miners, he will learn to live to the simple rhythms of river and season, work and play, love and loss. There, he will finally find himself and graduate a man because, sometimes, higher learning can be found in the ground beneath your feet.
สี่แพร่ง
A portmanteau horror film consisting of 4 horror stories directed by 4 of Thailand’s most talented directors. ‘Happiness’ – Fear of Being Alone…A woman who is unemployed broken-hearted and desperate for companionship receives an anonymous SMS from a possible male suitor. She doesn’t think twice being that life can’t get any worse. But life can get much worse when she encounters something she will regret for the rest of her life. ‘Tit For Tat’ – Fear of Reprisal…Hot-blooded teenagers gang up on and bully other peoples. What they don’t realize is that their careless ways have earned them a diploma of death when one of their victims decides to take revenge by putting a curse on what looks like an ordinary pieces of paper. ‘In The Middle’ – Fear of What Goes Bump in the Night…4 best friends go camping in the middle of the jungle. Later at night they argue over who gets to sleep in the middle of the tent. One of the boys foolishly swears, “If I die, I’ll come back and haunt whoever sleeps in the middle first”. He drowns the next day while water rafting. The remaining friends have trouble sleeping being that nobody dares to sleep in the middle. But then there is a sound of footsteps walking towards them! ‘Last Fright’ – Fear of the Dead…Pim, a flight attendant, who is assigned to fly solo on a charter flight with the Princess of Wanistahl. An ordinary flight turns into something tragedy when the princess dies due to an allergic reaction. The royal house of Wanistahl requests that her body be sent back immediately for royal cremation. The airline reschedules Pim to be on duty. Now she must endure the passenger-less flight alone with the dead body of the princess. But is she really alone?