{"id":10441,"date":"2019-09-17T08:49:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T06:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.nihrff.de\/6046-revision-v1\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T15:55:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T13:55:21","slug":"films-2019-manta-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/films-2019-manta-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Manta Ray"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Manta Ray<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Kraben Rahu<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

DIRECTOR(S): <\/strong>Phuttiphong Aroonpheng\u00a0\u00a0 COUNTRIES: <\/strong>Thailand, France, China\u00a0\u00a0 YEAR: <\/strong>2018\u00a0\u00a0 LANGUAGE(S): <\/strong>Thai\u00a0\u00a0 SUBTITLES: <\/strong>German, English\u00a0\u00a0 RUNNING TIME: <\/strong>105 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SECTION:<\/strong> International Competition 2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

SCREENINGS <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, 05.10., 11.00 am, kommkino
Monday, 07.10., 7.15 pm, kommkino, Q&A with Aphisit Hama (actor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near a coastal village of Thailand, by the sea where thousands of Rohingya refugees have drowned, a local fisherman finds an injured man lying unconscious in the forest. He rescues the stranger, who does not speak a word, offers him his friendship and names him Thongchai. But when the fisherman suddenly disappears at sea, Thongchai slowly begins to take over his friend\u2019s life \u2013 his house, his job and his ex-wife\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director\u2019s statement<\/strong>
Because I\u2019m a DoP by training, I\u2019m not confident when I have to tell a story through words, dialogue or other devices apart from the cinematography. MANTA RAY is driven by visual and sound; it works almost like an abstract piece, or an instrumental music. And because most of the films I\u2019ve shot in my career are low-budget films, I was trained to improvise and to adapt to the situation. I didn\u2019t have the luxury of being able to design everything in advance and hoping it would turn out as I had envisioned; instead we would go to a location and see what we can do about it. So most the films I shot tend to have this look of a documentary, something slightly spontaneous, and it\u2019s the same in MANTA RAY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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