‘Dog God’ (‘My Teacher Eats Biscuits 2020’) gets green light after 25-year ban

In an article for The Nation newspaper’s Weekend magazine on her directorial debut, independent filmmaker Ing Kanjanavanit (Ing K) wrote: “A film is not really a film until it’s seen”.

That was 25 years ago and Ing K was referring to her debut oeuvre, “Dog God”, then titled “My Teacher Eats Biscuits” (“Kon Garb Mha”) screening at the  Hawaii International Film Festival.

“My Teacher Eats Biscuits” had its world premiere on November 11, 1997 and the director subsequently held a private screening at the Goethe Institut. The plan was for the film to have its Thai premiere at the Bangkok International Film Festival in 1998, but it was banned before it could be shown to the general public on charges of insulting religion.

The independent film finally passed the censors on October 24, 2023, with a rating of 15+. Now renamed “Dog God”,  the film is a…