Despite its odd and quirky premise, this comic ghost story screened at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and ended up being ...

Thai writer-director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's first feature, world premiering in the Critics' Week lineup in Cannes, is a tale of marginalization and humans' relationship with the past.

A ghost-possessed vacuum cleaner might sound like standard horror fare, but in the hands of Thai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, it transforms into a sly commentary on pollution, power ...

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s “A Useful Ghost” has picked up Critics Week’s Grand Prize. The film has been picking up fans among journalists since the premiere, intrigued by its absurd yet ...

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s Cannes-premiering A Useful Ghost is a multilayered cinematic extravaganza (and feat) that manages to seamlessly combine several deep themes: toxic pollution, soulless ...

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke has just made history as the first Thai director to win the top prize at Cannes parallel section Critics’ Week with his debut feature A Useful Ghost, winning the ...

A film about woman who dies from dust pollution and returns to posses her husband's vacuum cleaner is just one of the recent examples of cinema building Thailand's reputation for distinctiveness and ...

Film director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke felt Thailand’s popular gay cinema needed to branch out and do more politics, so he enlisted one of the country’s top influencers to help.

There are many kinds of ghosts in Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s witty, cheeky A Useful Ghost.They range from avenging and embittered to pleasant, generous and helpful.

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s “A Useful Ghost” has picked up Critics Week’s Grand Prize. The film has been picking up fans among journalists since the premiere, intrigued by its absurd yet ...