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The 9th In the seventh heaven Film Festival of Bangkok has movies that have been the toast of Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and other festivals
Postponed from November by the floods, the ninth copy of the World Film Festival of Bangkok unspools this week with around 90 striking features, documentaries and shorts, many of them award-winners from prominent festivals, including Cannes, Berlin and Sundance.
The description is divided into the usual five categories from past years - Asian Contemporary, Cine Latino, Cinema Throb, Doc Feast and Short Wave.
The festival's annual Lotus Assign will be presented to Hungarian director Béla Tarr, who'll also be on hand to talk about his latest travail, "The Turin Horse". Shot in black-and-white in just 30 sustained takes by Tarr's regular cinematographer Fred Kelemen, it depicts the unceasing daily lives of a horse and its owner.
Source: The Nation