Phantom Of Illumination

Film Year:
2017
Release Date:
17 August 2017
Running Time:
69 Mins
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Film Rating:
G

Contact (International)

Eyedropper Fill Co., Ltd.

177 Phichai Rd., Kweang Thanon Nakornchaisri, Dusit, Bangkok 10300, Thailand
Tel: +668 3295 8639
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.eyedropperfill.com
Facebook: Eyedropper Fill

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Awards / International Film Festivals:

Winner 

Special Mention Next:wave Award / Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival  2017 (CPH:DOX) 

 Nominee 

Official Selection / Singapore International Film Festival 2017 

Official Selection / Taipei Film Festival 2017 

Official Selection / Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival 2017 

Official Selection / Festival Film Dokumenter  2017 

Official Selection / Seoul Independent Documentary Film Festival 2019 

 

Synopsis:

Once upon a time, cinema was mainstream entertainment in Thailand. Movie theatres in Thailand were the place where families hung out. 30 years ago, there were 140 standalone movie theatres in Bangkok. As time went by, old-fashioned movie theatres are forgotten. Most of them became second-class movie theatre showing double feature or pornography and eventually closed down. 

Thonburi Rama is the last second class movie theatre that opened until 2013, when it had to close down. After the closure of Thonburi Rama, Rith, a projectionist who worked there for more than 25 years became a jobless person. His knowledge of film projecting became useless. He turned into an alcoholic and tried to study Dharma. Sometimes what he spoke were things that he mixed the reality with his own fantasy. 

Rith went back to his hometown where his wife and daughter owned a rubber plantation, but he felt that he didn’t fit in and lost all hope. 

Contact (International)

Eyedropper Fill Co., Ltd.

177 Phichai Rd., Kweang Thanon Nakornchaisri, Dusit, Bangkok 10300, Thailand
Tel: +668 3295 8639
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.eyedropperfill.com
Facebook: Eyedropper Fill