Awards

"Pitting vengeful ghosts against a backdrop of a supernatural love story, A Useful Ghost charmingly plays with genre to question how history and myth can probe collective and socio-political grief. Exploring and broadening the definitions of queerness, the film possesses audiences to find the intersections of joy and how history can haunt us if we do not contend with the past. A Useful Ghost provides much levity to surprise viewers (and the jury) to reckon with the dustings of memory and loss to ultimately remind us that history, can in fact, repeat."

For a film that seamlessly and intricately weaved together all the elements of cinema and made them coherently one. For a show of masterful mise-en-scene, playful storytelling, and having a sharp balance of emotional ambiguity and visual consistency. This film continuously challenged, surprised and stimulated us throughout the journey, and introduced a new exciting voice in Asian Cinema. Absurd, hilarious yet politically charged, the Best Film goes to A Useful Ghost by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke.