International Competition
In Sum
ผีพัฒนา / Komtouch Napattaloong / Thailand / 2026 / 17′
Corroded pixels and Cold War archival footage come together, composing a partial account of “development” in northeast Thailand, a region long shaped by Cold War tensions and rural modernization projects. Voices from the film Thailand’s Role in the Vietnam War and images from the Shell Film Company’s documentation of the Mekong River development project, along with Tongpan of the Isaan Film Group, manifest,distort and thin. The texts that emerge from these fragmented images form an uneasy presence, part archive, part machine, part memory.
Directed by Komtouch Napattaloong
Music Liew Niyomkarn
Production Dano Napattaloong and Rare Occupant
National Archives. National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency, Shell Oil Co. Educational Film Southeast Asia, Isaan Film Group, Thai Film Archive (Public Organization).
INTRASTEVERE CINEMA – Room 1, May 30, 7:30 p.m.
Komtouch Napattaloong
Komtouch Napattaloong is a visual artist and filmmaker living and working in Thailand. His work explores the deconstruction of identity, anxieties of belonging, migration narratives, and historical translations. The filmmaker examines themes such as memory, uprooting, and the fluid nature of identity, often through experimental and documentary forms. His latest film, In Sum, has been selected for the 76th Berlinale Forum Expanded, where it will have its world premiere.