Apichatpong Weerasethakul

He was born in Bangkok, Thailand, in 1970. He studied Architecture in Khon Kaen and Film in Chicago, USA. He directed the features Mysterious Object at Noon (2000), Blissfully Yours (2002; Best Director at Bafici ‘03), Tropical Malady (2004) and Syndromes and a Century (2006), as well as an episode in the collective film O estado do mundo (2008), all of them were screened at Bafici.