Taiki Sakpisit is a filmmaker and lecturer working in Bangkok. His works explore depictions of violence and unease that emerged from the political upheaval in Thailand from the 1970s to the present day.

Taiki’s moving images and experimental shorts have been presented extensively at numerous exhibitions and film festivals. The Mental Traveller (2019) was in Ammodo Tiger Short Competition.

His first feature-length film The Edge of Daybreak premiered at the 50th International Film Festival in the Tiger Awards Competition and won the FIPRESCI award for its “Mysterious atmosphere and rich imagery in depicting trauma and violence, for its capacity of dealing with forty years of political turmoil through a powerful and hypnotic cinematic journey, and for its compromise with the past in order to confront the present and the next future.”

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