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Death by a thousand cuts

Death by a thousand cuts

A history of film censorship in Thailand

The film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, is the most celebrated Thai creative artist in the world today, awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2010 and a string of other international prizes. After wrestling with the Thai censors, he decided first to stop showing his films in Thailand, and then to stop making his films here. He has recently been making a film with an international star cast in Colombia, almost exactly the opposite point on the globe, the farthest possible distance from Thailand on the planet.

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