Add/Update Information: Apichatpong Weerasethakul - Writer

A Thai writer and director, born in Bangkok, on July 16, 1970. His parents were doctors in a hospital in the city of Khon Kaen. Apichatpong joined Khon Kaen University and got a bachelor's degree in architecture in 1994. He made his first short film a year earlier, entitled Bullet. He went to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he got a master's degree in fine arts in filmmaking in 1997. He is the only Thai to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes so far. His most important films include Syndromes and a Century (2006) and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), which won the Palme d'Or.