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Tam, a timid loner, is bullied regularly by his fellow pupils at school. He is met with similar rejection
and suspicion within the narrow confines of his parents’ dingy home, where his father beats him.
One day Tam arranges online to meet Phum at a derelict swimming pool. They are both looking for
sex, but their encounter leaves them with a feeling of comfort and security. A close bond develops
between the two boys and, before long, they are roaming the rubbish heaps and dark corners of the
city together, day and night. Phum opens a door for Tam, revealing a fantastical parallel universe
full of spirits and dangerous encounters. Although he feels safe and loved for the first time in his
life, Tam can no longer differentiate between dream and reality and finds himself increasingly drawn
into a spiral of paranoia and violence.In his feature debut Boonyawatana leads his protagonist into
an ambiguous microcosm full of chasms, at the same time cleverly toying with the conventions of
different genres.
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Credits
- Production company
- G Village Co-Creation Hub
- Original title
- Onthakan