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The World Film Festival of Bangkok ((タイ語:เทศกาลภาพยนตร์โลกแห่งกรุงเทพฯ)) is an annual international film festival held between October & November in Bangkok, Thailand. The 12th Annual World Film Festival of Bangkok will be held between 17–26 October 2014. ==History== Nation Multimedia Group, a media company based in Thailand, organised the first Bangkok Film Festival in the country in 1998. Various international films were screened to promote cinematic art and film appreciation in Thailand. The event was held annually until 2002. The Tourism Authority of Thailand became the main organizer and changed the name to the Bangkok International Film Festival. Since 2003, the World Film Festival of Bangkok has been held annually in October by the Nation Multimedia Group with Mr Kriengsak Victor Silakong as the festival director. The 1st World Film Festival of Bangkok 2003 was held at the Grand EGV Theatre, Siam Discovery from October 17–26 with more than 80 international films both from young talent and cinema masters. The Retrospective presented the works of Fritz Lang, Satyajit Ray, Jean Cocteau and Werner Herzog along with screening of more than 10 Indian films. The Best Feature went to "Swimming Pool" from France. The jurors included Jiří Menzel, a Czech film legend and Naowarat Pongpaiboon, a Thai National Artist in Literature Art. In 2004, the Lotus Award was given for the first time to people who had devoted their careers to the film industry. The first honouree was Thai comedy master Dokdin Kanyamarn. Additionally, ''Mr. Tui'', Dokdin's famous comedy, was remastered with English subtitles. This film was also presented in the "Masters of Comedy" program with films from world-renowned masters such as Jacques Tati, Charles Chapin, Terry Gilliam as well as Jackie Chan with his documentary film "Traces of a Dragon: Jackie Chan and his Lost Family". The event also focused on seminars and activities by co-operating with the Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Fonds Sud Cinéma from France, to hold a discussion to guide film producers seeking international funds for their film projects. It also arranged a film rating system workshop that allowed the participants to categorize films shown at the festival. After the workshop, the rating system was introduced to all films shown at the 3rd World Film Festival of Bangkok 2005. It also held a workshop on fund raising for new film projects with the support of the Festival of Three Continents from Nantes, France and Produire Au Sud. At the end of the workshop, the most interesting film projects in Southeast Asia were selected to receive funds and were invited to the final selection in France. This was the 2nd Produire au Sud Bangkok. The 2005 festival featured the "Tsunami Digital Short Films". Both Thai and international film-makers were given s budget from the Ministry of Cultural Office of Contemporary Art and Culture to make short films as a memorial tribute on the first anniversary of the tsunami disaster. Mr Kriengsak Silakong was an executive producer of the project. It included the works of a number of Thai directors, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thunska Pansittivorakul, Pramote Sangsorn, Lek Manont, Naowarat Saowanich, Pipope Panitchpakdi, Santi Taepanich, Pimpaka Towira, Somkid Thamniamdi, Sompot Chidgasornpongse and Suchada Sirithanawuddhi and Christelle Lheureux from France, Folke Ryden from Sweden and Margaret Bong Chew Jen from Malaysia. The short films were premiered at both this festival and many other international film festivals around the world. Highlights in 2005 included the special guest and Academy Award-winning Polish film director Roman Polanski, who attended the festival for the Lotus Award presentation. His film ''Oliver Twist'' was the opening film. Other highlights were the film screenings from the Czechoslovak New Wave and Turkish films. Focus and the Retrospective of the films of Ulrike Ottinger and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. ''War and Peace'', a seven-hour epic film based on the eponymous book, was shown and attracted great interest. The Best Feature 2005 went to the Sri Lankan film ''The Forsaken Land'' by Vimukthi Jayasundara and led to a provocative and lively discussion as to the facts shown in the film. With the support of the Polish Embassy, the 4th World Film Festival of Bangkok 2006 presented a Retrospective of the late and legendary Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski and included his hard-to-find works like ''The Calm'', ''Short Working Day'' and ''The Underground Passage''. Special events featured the poster exhibition of artist and designer Rafał Olbiński, who was one of the jurors. The festival opened with the Chinese big-budget movie ''The Banquet'' from the director Feng Xiaogang before its wide release in Thailand. Additionally, it won the People's Choice Award. The 5th World Film Festival of Bangkok 2007 was held at the The Esplanade Cineplex with the concept "Catch the Feeling". The festival continued to retain its emphasis on vigorous and enthusiastic international films from various cultures, together with special activities. This festival was honoured by The European Union Film Festival joining the event with its best 20 European feature films. The 2007 film festival as it co-operated with MCOT Public Company Limited to hold a short film competition open to the public. Students focused on "Father" and "The World through My Eyes", based on the poem of the 2007 S.E.A. Write Award winner Montri Sriyong respectively. The activity "From Books to Celluloid" featured talks on ''Butterfly and Flowers'' with the writer Nippan and the director Euthana Mukdasanit, and "Conversation with Suchart Sawadsri" with this prominent writer for his debut of short films "Personal Histories" which also screened at the festival. The 2007 Lotus Award was presented to Euthana Mukdasanit, while the Best Feature was "Import/Export" from Austria. The People's Choice Award was discontinued. In 2008, the festival's theme was "No Movies, No Life". Held at Siam Paragon, it opened with the romantic drama ''A Moment in June'', which had been the first film selected from the Produire Au Sud Bangkok workshop. Martin Scorsese's ''Shine a Light'' was the closing film. Around 80 films were shown, with a retrospective on Derek Jarman, tribute to Héctor Babenco and five films by Shyam Benegal, recipient of the 2008 Lotus Award. The Harvest of Talents competition was suspended. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「World Film Festival of Bangkok」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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