Of useful ghosts and all-girls school

FOR THIS edition of the QCinema International Film Festival, Business-World was able to catch the winning films of two of the festival’s competition categories: Thai film A Useful Ghost by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, winner of Asian Next Wave, and Singaporean film Amoeba by Siyou Tan, winner of New Horizons. The 3rd category, RainbowQC for LGBTQ films was won by Diego Céspedes’ The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo.

- By Brontë H. Lacsamana

A SCENE from A Useful Ghost

Here are the reviews for these two films:

A USEFUL GHOST

Directed by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke

A Useful Ghost took home the Grand Prix at Cannes Critics’ Week earlier this year, and it’s clear why it was the winning representative of the new wave of Asian filmmaking in QCinema. It tells the story of a wife’s spirit reincarnated as a vacuum cleaner — and gets deeper and crazier from there.