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As happens every year, the official film selections will have directors, producers and actors in attendance who participate in numerous festival events, including post-screening Q&A sessions.

Visitors can also enjoy an exhibition of the photographs of Philip Jablon, who in 2008 began his Southeast Asia Movie Theatre Project, creating the single most comprehensive collection of the region’s cinematic theatres ever compiled.

The photos on display at this year’s festival will depict some of the theatres captured during Jablon’s tour of Mon State in in February and March this year.

Find out more at LPFilmFest.org and keep up to date at Facebook.com/lpfilmfest.

Lao director Chilasak Saysanith's new feature, "The Anniversary" will open the Luang Prabang Film Festival. Thai films in spotlight in Luang Prabang Movie & TV November 03, 2017 01:00 By THE FULL FILM ROSTER The Lao cinema festival in December casts its Set in Vientiane, it’s about Vin, a young man whose bad -“2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten” (Philippines) gaze across Southeast Asia timing combines with unexpected events to sabotage his romantic relationships before they can get to the first - “The Anniversary” (Laos) - “Bad Genius” (Thailand) The Luang Prabang Film Festival, taking place in the anniversary. Enter Vahn, whose disdain for the higher former capital of Laos from December 8 to 13, will have a social classes force Vin to hide his wealth. - “Blood Road” (Laos, Vietnam, ) bumper crop of Thai movies, including Apichatpong - “Burma Storybook” (Myanmar) The festival will show both features and short films, Weerasethakul’s “Rak Ti Khon Kaen” (“Cemetery of - “By the Time It Gets Dark” (Thailand) Splendour”) and the international hit “Chalard Games including a selection from this year’s Vientianale, and – at - “Cemetery of Splendour” (Thailand) Gong” (“Bad Genius”). the day venue in the Sofitel Luang Prabang – will host discussions on film preservation in the digital age, - “The Couple” (Thailand)

“Dao Khanong” (“By the Time It Gets Dark”) – which won “Muslim voices” in Southeast Asia, and financing - “Die Beautiful” (Philippines) the Subhanahongsa Award for best picture and was non-fiction projects. - “Fanatic” (Vietnam) Thailand’s bid for a foreign-language Oscar – will be - “Father and Son” (Vietnam) There’ll be a Talent Lab led by the Tribeca Film Institute screened. So will Pimpaka Towira’s “Mahasamut Lae - “Heart Attack” (Thailand) Susan” (“The Island Funeral”), the independent on pitching concepts, after which one project will be - “In Exile” (Myanmar) documentary “Mon Rotfai” (“Railway Sleepers”) and the selected for marketing in New York as part of the 2018 - “In My Hometown” (Thailand) 1954 classic “SantiVina”. Tribeca Film Festival. - “The Island Funeral” (Thailand) The others are “The Couple”, “Heart Attack”, “In My All participants in the Talent Lab will get preferential - “Jailbreak” (Cambodia) consideration for TFI grants, with Aurora Media Holdings Hometown”, "Legend of the Broken Sword”, “Snap” and - “Khuannang” (Laos) “Wandering”. offering production startup funds of Bt340,000. - “Legend of the Broken Sword” (Thailand) - “Mind Cage” (Cambodia) The festival’s “Spotlight on Thailand” segment will see Post film critic Kong Rithdee – who serves as the - “Motherland” (Philippines) festival’s “Motion Picture Ambassador for Thailand” – - “Ordinary People” (Philippines) leading the daylong programme of Thai films and a - “Railway Sleepers” (Thailand) discussion about contemporary Thai cinema. - “Redha” (Malaysia) - “Rina 2” (Brunei, Laos) - “Santi-Vina” (Thailand) - “Saving Sally” (Philippines) - “Snap” (Thailand) - “Turah” (Indonesia) A documentary-production workshop is also planned, - “Unlucky Plaza” (Singapore) sponsored by the US Mission to Southeast Asia and the - “Wandering” (Thailand) Opening the festival will be “The Anniversary”, a new Lao American Film Showcase and led by Filipino-American feature directed by Chilasak Saysanith, the trailer for director Ramona Diaz (“Imelda”, “Don’t Stop Believin’”). - “Women of the Weeping River” (Philippines) which is posted on the website – LPFilmFest.org. - “You Mean the World to Me” (Malaysia)