| Director: | Roderick Warich |
|---|---|
| Production: | The Barricades, 2557 Films |
| Running Time: | 153’ |
| Language: | Thai |
| Country: | Germany |
| Year: | 2025 |
| Main Cast: | Jutamat Lamoon, Wason Dokkathum, Jutarat Burinok |
| Screenplay: | Roderick Warich |
| Cinematographer: | Roland Stuprich |
| Editor: | Hannes Bruun |
| Music: | John Gürtler |
| Sound: | Kent Lamroongruang, Dominik Leube |
| Visual Effects: | Felix Knoche |
Cinema
Funeral Casino Blues
Orizzonti
Synopsis
Jen came to Bangkok to support her family, but her front desk job doesn’t pay enough. To make ends meet, she starts dating foreigners as a temporary girlfriend. When one of those dates turns violent, the barman Wason steps in. Shaken, Jen asks him to drive her to her next appointment. He reluctantly agrees, and as they drift through the city at night, they slowly fall in love. But Wason’s gambling debts catch up with him. A fight. A failed break-in. Shots fired. Wason is forced to flee Bangkok. Jen drives him halfway to Pattaya. Then they part. Weeks later, Jen’s roommate Pim contacts Wason out of the blue: Jen is missing, and no one has heard from her. Together, Wason and Pim set out to search for her in her rural hometown near the Cambodian border. But maybe Jen never left Bangkok at all...
Director’s Statement
Funeral Casino Blues is an urban film born from rural stories — tales of debt and gambling, loan sharks and ghosts, and of fleeing from village life to Pattaya or Bangkok. The city before you, concrete rushing beneath, thousands of windows glowing in the night. Thousands of lives. A winning lottery ticket in your pocket, meant to buy your mother a house. The hope of gambling and religion. The hope for a better next life. Hope born from despair. Though rooted in lived experience, the film comes from a mythical place — a cinema of pure romance, struggling to depict the world as ultimately justifiable.
Production/distribution
PRODUCTION 1:
The Barricades - Viktoria Stolpe
Werbellinstrasse 59
12053 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49 1729481033
E-mail: viktoria@the-barricades.com
Web: http://www.the-barricades.com
Social Media: the___barricades - Instagram
PRODUCTION 2:
2557 Films - Dominik Rockenmaier
Stuttgarter Strasse 58
12059 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49 17678245713
E-mail: dominik.rockenmaier@web.de
Social Media: 2557_films - Instagram
WORLD SALES:
Pluto Film
E-mail: info@plutofilm.de
PRESS OFFICE:
Panorama Entertainment
Ickstattstraße 12
80469 München, Germany
Amélie Linder
E-mail: amelie.linder@panorama-entertainment.com
Tel: +49 172 640 7242
Xavier Chotard
E-mail: xavier.chotard@panorama-entertainment.com
Tel: +49 172 8402165
