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Film Screening of "Narrative" with Arsenal Filminstitut

26 August 2026 | 18:00–20:00

Arsenal – Insitute for Film and Video Art will be screening “Narrative” at Critical Signals. Screening will be followed by Q+A and discussion with the Director, Anocha Suwichakornpong.

Set 15 years after the 2010 military massacre of pro-democracy protesters in Bangkok, Anocha Suwichakornpong’s film blurs the boundaries between filmmaking, political reflection and legal investigation. It unfolds as both a rehearsal and an act of remembrance – staging a fictional trial for those responsible for the violence that remains officially unaccounted for. As Thailand’s justice system continues to suppress efforts towards civic accountability, Narrative weaves together the testimony of real witnesses with the filmmaker’s own research process for her forthcoming feature, Fiction. Through this layered approach, Suwichakornpong creates a space where documentary evidence and imaginative reconstruction converge, challenging viewers to confront the gaps in official narratives. The result is a haunting meditation on truth, representation and the unfinished work of history – asking what cinema can accomplish when traditional paths to justice have been foreclosed.

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Anocha Suwichakornpong Anocha Suwichakornpong Anocha Suwichakornpong is a filmmaker whose work explores memory, history and political trauma. Her debut Mundane History won the Tiger Award at Rotterdam. By the Time It Gets Dark centres on Thailand’s 1976 … Ulrich Ziemons Ulrich Ziemons Ulrich Ziemons is a film curator and festival programmer based in Berlin. He is the head of the Forum Expanded program of the Berlin International Film Festival. Born in 1982, he graduated in Media Studies and English at …