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Sawan Baan Na
Agrarian Utopia
“How can we dream of utopia while our stomach is still grumbling?” (from the film)
Traditional agriculture is under threat and farmers around the world face mounting pressure to make ends meet. New generation Thai director Uruphong Raksasad returned to the village he was born in to make this part- documentary, part-drama about tenant farmers in a northern Thai village grappling with the stresses of changing times. One family has been evicted from their land for not paying back a bank loan. Another has returned from squatting in an abandoned construction project. They are tasked by a land owner to work his land, planting rice for a season. Neither the land owner nor the farmers can afford modern machinery, so they work the paddy fields by hand, tilling the earth with an untrained water buffalo. A neighbor is there to lend a helping hand, but this long-haired, bespectacled professor has his own way of doing things. He shuns chemicals, believes in self-sufficiency and grows food to eat, not for the money. We follow this group over the course of a year; as hunger forces them to grill field mice, trying to train an unwilling water buffalo, the adventure of discovering a honey cove, the children’s joy playing in the mud and rain when the monsoons pour down. Agrarian Utopia captivates with its stunning visuals and naturalistic acting and by the time it ends, the finale is one of the saddest scenes you will see this year. Not least because you know that every day, in villages all over the world, similar scenes are being enacted and a particular relationship to land and nature is dying.
2009 Rotterdam Film Festival:NETPAC Special Mention
Vienna Film Festival
Hong Kong Film Festival
Vancouver Film Festival
Munich Film Festival
Singapore Film Festival
Bangkok Film Festival
Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival
About the Director
Uruphong Raksasad
Uruphong Raksasad lived in the countryside till
age of 18 when he first came to Bangkok to study
film and photography at Thammasat University.
After his graduation in 2000, he started to work
as a film editor and production supervisor. His
first feature film, Stories from the North (2005),
was shown at many festivals and widely ac-
claimed.
SCREENINGS
| 11.02.2010 19:30 AFM Fitaş Salon 1 |
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| 18.02.2010 13:00 AFM Fitaş Salon 1 |
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OVERVIEW
- Director
- Uruphong Raksasad ()
- Cast
- Prayad Jumma
- Somnuek Mungmeung
- Sai Jumma
- Nikorn Mungmeung
- Sompong Jumma
- Chakri Mungmeung
- Production Co.
- Extra Virgin Co
- Distributor
- Extra Virgin Co
- Cinematography
- Uruphong Raksasad ()
- Editing
- Uruphong Raksasad ()
- Producer
- PimpakaTowira
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