Agrarian Utopia
Film - Focus on the Far East Filmfest 2009

Agrarian Utopia

Directed by Uruphong Raksasad

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Director: Uruphong Raksasad
Section: Focus on the Far East
Country: Thailand
Year: 2009
OT: SAWAN BAAN NA
Language: Thai
18+ (no age rating)

Logline

Agrarian Utopia

Facing seizure of their lands, two families find themselves farming together on the same field, hoping just to get through another rice-farming season like every year. But no matter how much the world is evolving, how much the country is going through economic, political and social changes, they still cannot grasp that ideology of happiness. How can we dream of utopia while our stomachs are still grumbling? Production Notes "I wonder whether all these professions we have in the world (including filmmaking) are really necessary. How much does the world really need them? I feel that the more we complicate things, the more it produces emptiness and unfulfillment in return, one way or another." Uruphong Raksasad

with: Prayad Jumma, Somnuek Mungmeung, Sai Jumma, Nikorn Mungmeung, Sompong Jumma

Meet the director

Uruphong Raksasad