Bangkok Cinema Scene special: 1st Salaya International Documentary Film Festival, January 13-23, 2011

The Film Archive (Public Organization) in cooperation with the Thai Film Foundation organizes the first Salaya International Documentary Film Festival offering more than 20 Asian documentaries from January 13 to 23 at the Thai Film Archive in Salaya, Nakhon Pathom.

Part of the festival will feature documentaries that were supported by the Asian Network of Documentary of the Pusan International Film Festival.

For the opening, the festival will pay homage to Ogawa Shinsuke, one of the most influential independent documentary filmmakers in post-war Japan, with the screening his most acclaimed work, 1968's Summer in Narita, which records the protest by farmers against the building of Tokyo's Narita International Airport. The fest will also screen Ogawa's 210-minute epic from 1982, A Japanese Village.

Other festival highlights include Uruphong Raksasad's highly acclaimed film on rural Thailand, Agrarian Utopia and Baby Arabia, the musical by Muslim filmmakers Panu Aree, Kong Rithdee and Kaweenipon Ketprasit, about a band that's well-known in Bangkok's Islamic community. As a bonus, Baby Arabia will give a concert after the 5pm screening on January 14.

Here's the festival lineup:

January 13

• 13.00 – Playing Documentary / Japan / 2000 / 64 min/ Talk with producer and cinematographer Naito Masayuki
• 17.00 – Opening ceremony
• 18.00 – Summer in Narita / Ogawa Shinsuke /Japan / 1968 / 108 min

January 14

• 14.00 – Hanako / Sato Makoto /Japan /2001/58 min / Talk: Power of Documentary with Panu Aree
• 17.00 – Baby Arabia / Panu Aree, Kong Rithdee, Kaweenipon Ketprasit / Thailand / 2010 / 74 min
• 18.30 – Concert: Baby Arabia Live in Salaya

January 15

• 10.30 – A Japanese Village (Furuyashikimura / Ogawa Shinsuke /Japan / 1982 / 210 min
• 17.00 – Agarian Utopia/ Uruphong Raksasad / Thailand / 2009 /122min

January 16

• 10.30 – Mental / Soda Kazuhiro / Japan, USA / 2008/ 135 min
• 13.00 – The Missing Piece/ Patana Chirawong / Thailand / 2011 / 84 min
• 15.00 – Path of Anna / Naoi Riyo / Japan, Thailand / 2009 / 70 min
• 17.00 – Narita: Peasants of the Second Fortress / Ogawa Sinsuke /Japan / 1971 / 143 min

January 17

• 13.00 – Amin / Shahin PARHAMI / Iran, South Korea, Canada / 2010 / 120 min
• 15.00 – Yesterday Today Tomorrow /Naoi Riyo / Japan, Thailand / 2005 / 90 min
• 17.00 – Hope Dies Last in War Supriyo Sen / India / / 2007 / 80 min

January 18

• 13.00 – The Missing Piece / Patana Chirawong /Thailand /2011/ 84min
• 15.00 – Stories from the North / Uruphong Raksasad /Thailand / 2006 / 88 min
• 17.00 – Sona, the Other Myself Yan Yonghi/ Japan, South Korea / 2009 / 82 min

January 19

• 13.00 – New Castle / Guo Hengqi / China / 2010 / 112min
• 15.00 – Playing Documentary / Japan / 2000 / 64 min / Hanako / Sato Makoto / Japan / 2001 / 58min
• 17.00 – Mental / Soda Kazuhiro / Japan, USA / 2008 / 135 min

January 20

• 13.00 – Father & Son Yuanb He / China / 2009 / 169 min
• 16.00 – Disorder Huang Weikai / China / 2009 / 58 min
• 17.00 – Amin /Shahin Parhami / Iran, South Korea, Canada / 2010 / 120 min

January 21

• 13.00 – A Japanese Village (Furuyashikimura / Ogawa Shinsuke / Japan / 1982 / 210 min
• 17.00 – Passion / Byamba Sakhya / Mongolia / 2010 / 80 min

January 22

• 10.30 – Uruphong Raksasad’s short films: The Funeral, The Rocket, Winai's Sea, Stirring Rice Porridge and Pounding Shredded Rice and Dad's Picture
• 13.00 – Summer in Narita / Ogawa Shinsuke /Japan / 1968 / 108 min
• 15.00 – Sona, the Other Myself Yan Yonghi/ Japan, South Korea / 2009 / 82 min
• 17.00 – Narita: Peasants of the Second Fortress / Ogawa Sinsuke/ 1971 / 143 min

January 23

• 10.30 – New Castle / Guo Hengqi / China / 2010 / 112min
• 13.00 – Hope Dies Last in War Supriyo Sen / India / / 2007 / 80 min
• 15.00 – Disorder Huang Weikai / China / 2009 / 58 min
• 16.00 – Passion / Byamba Sakhya / Mongolia / 2010 / 80 min
• 18.00 – Closing Film: Lumpinee / Chira Wichaisuthikul/ Thailand /2010/ 97min

Screenings, all free of charge, will be in the Sri Salaya Theatre at the Thai Film Archive, on Phuttamonthon Soi 5 in Salaya, Nakhon Pathom. Directions are available on this website.

For more details, check the websites www.FAPOT.org or www.ThaiFilm.com or check the Facebook events page.