“Maybe they wanted some money under the table...”

Thai Cinema Uncensored, the first full-length history of Thai film censorship, will be published later this year. The book features candid interviews with leading directors, who recount their experiences with the film censor board.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul suggests the reason he was targeted for censorship: “Maybe they wanted some money under the table”. Pen-ek Ratanaruang discusses the sensitive footage he couldn’t risk showing to the censors: “We’ll just have to bury it in the ground somewhere!” Yuthlert Sippapak explains his battle with the military: “They don’t want the truth. I want the truth.”