Jay (Phillippines)Directed by Francis Xavier Pasion
Screening Courtesy - Francis Xavier Pasion
With the support of the Embassy of the Philippines, who will serve a Filipino buffet-dinner.

 

 

Thursday, 9 July, 8.00 pm

Cover charge for non-members: 150 baht. Buffet dinner - 150 baht extra, for members and non-members

 

This is the story of a mother whose gay son Jay is murdered, but who is not allowed to mourn in private because the producer of a reality-show, also called Jay (who is also gay), wants to publicly record her sorrow for his show, claiming it will help to find the killer.

He and his camera follow the victim’s family, his male friend, and the town's mayor. At the end it seems more like a scripted drama than a real-life tragedy

The sensational film, based on the real-life murder of the producer of a reality-show points fingers at the media's unscrupulous games. But it also points fingers at the media-savvy ‘victims’. It seems that today’s media-manipulation ensures that nothing is real any more: life, death, murder or sorrow.

The quirky ending points to the fact that even the reality-show producer forgets to put the shutter in his personal life.

The debut film of talented indie director Francis Xavier Pasion, ‘Jay’ stars two of the country's top actors, Baron Geisler and Coco Martin.

It swept up most of the awards at the well-known Cinemalaya film festival in Manila, last year, before creating waves at major festivals around the world, including Venice and Pusan. It also won a Special Mention, at last year's Bangkok International Film Festival.

The Cinemalaya Jury commended the film for “Its sheer originality, energetic story-telling, mastery of digital technology, in order to tell a story that is a trenchant commentary on the technology itself. ”

The Financial Times said: “Jay is an acutely funny tale of intrusive telly reporters, bearing down on a family bereaved by a gay son’s murder, to make their grief part of a nation’s infotainment.”

To celebrate the small but strong film of yet another award-winning Filipino director, and to celebrate 60 years of diplomatic relations between Thailand and Philippines, the Ambassador of the Philippines HE Antonio V Rodriguez, will present a grand Filipino buffet meal of adobo, lumpia, bibingka, and various other delicacies.

Don't miss yet another unforgettable movie, in our Contemporary World Cinema Series.

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