Thailand’s Sivaroj Kongsakul Drops Trailer for San Sebastian and Busan-Bound ‘Regretfully at Dawn’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Thai auteur, Sivaroj Kongsakul made his feature directorial debut with “Eternity,” which screened at festivals including Busan, Rotterdam and Hong Kong back in 2010.
Having waited for over a decade, Kongsakul has chosen to entwine the fates of an old man, a little girl and a young soldier in his second feature, “Regretfully at Dawn.” The new film is confirmed to premiere in the New Directors section at the San Sebastian festival and will follow that shortly after with an appearance xx in Busan International Film Festival in October.
The film is very different from “Eternity” and from Kongsakul’s recent TV work. In a small province not far from Bangkok, the life of Yong Junjam (portrayed by Surachai Juntimatorn, who is better-known as a veteran Thai rock musician) at first seems typical of an old man.
The traces of his past as a soldier are also evident. Even though he currently feels unwell, Yong spends every day with the dream of building a tree-house by himself, and is meanwhile raising an intelligent and lively niece who was abandoned by her parents.
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