SINGAPORE

Bisato d'Oro - ​​Best Screenplay, Independent Critic's Jury 
Venice International F​ilm Festival

GRAND PRIZE - BEST FILM
2021 TOKYO FILMeX

Asian Feature Film Competition
Singapore International Film Festival

The Film

Anatomy of Time   

a film by Jakrawal Nilthamrong

2021, 118 minutes, Thailand/France/The Netherlands/Singapore, 1.85, Color, 5.1 Sound, in Thai with English subtitlesSales/Festivals: Diversion (Thailand)

Synopsis:

Two fragments in a woman's life. Maem is a young woman in 1960s rural Thailand. Her clocksmith father imparts his philosophy onto his daughter, while tensions from the military dictatorship and communist rebels are rising. She is courted by two very different young men - a feeble rickshaw driver who is literally pushed aside by an ambitious and ruthless army chief. Fifty years later, the army chief has become a disgraced general. Maem nurses her abusive husband during his last days and looks back at her past filled with loss, suffering and joy.

Beyond the nostalgia of Maem's life, ANATOMY OF TIME is also a tangible interpretation of a generation that is slowly fading. On one level a deeply felt story of a woman, and on another, that of a country's tragic past and its exploited people.

About the Director:

(Photo: Kiatchai Kiatsirikajorn)

Jakrawal Nilthamrong’s work spans from short films, documentary films to video installations and feature films. The themes of his work often relate to Eastern philosophy in contemporary context and local history of specific environments to establish dialogue among multiple perspectives. His shorts, documentaries and video installations include MAN AND GRAVITY, ORCHESTRA, UNREAL FOREST, IMMORTAL WOMAN (International Film Festival Rotterdam), INTRANSIT (Toronto International Film Festival) and STONE CLOUD (Berlinale Forum Expanded). His first narrative feature film VANISHING POINT won the Hivos Tiger Award at 2015 International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Writer/ Director
Jakrawal Nilthamrong

Starring
Thaveeratana Leelanuja
Prapamonton Eiamchan
Sorabodee Changsiri
Wanlop Rungkumjad

Producers
Mai Meksawan
Chatchai Chaiyon
Panuksmi Hardjowirogo
Yohann Cornu
Anouk Sluizer

Cinematography
Phuttiphong Aroonpheng

Production Design
Sarawut Karwnamyen

Editing
Lee Chatametikool
Katharina Wartena

Music
Pakorn Musikaboonlert
Pachara Chirathivat

Production
Diversion / Mit Out Sound Films (Thailand)
M'GO Films (Singapore)
Damned Films (France)
Sluizer Film Productions (The Netherlands)



Press Kit

Official Trailer

Festivals
Venice International Film Festival
Tokyo FILMeX - Grand Prize, Best Film
Singapore International Film Festival - Asian Feature Film Competition 
Filmfest Hamburg
Busan International Film Festival
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
Five Flavours Film Festival, Poland  -  ​International People's Jury Award 
Around the World in 14 Films, Berlin

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Reviews

The past haunts and shapes the pre​sent in the enigmatic, meditative and thought-provoking Anatomy of Time.

Allan Hunter

Anatomy of Time moves the personal within the historical, and it lets the unstoppable march of time take its course right to the very end.

Kong Rithdee

Jakrawal Nilthamrong drew on his own family history for an impressionistic look and used it as a springboard for a meditation on life and loss in his native Thailand.

Patrick Brzeski

A tale of endurance, waiting, sacrifice and of acceptance of the choices made in the past. Time changes all of us. Details fade. Anger and ambition lose force.

Patrick Frater