A song of disappearance and desire in a city that forgets you long before you're gone.“ ”
CINEUROPA
“Stylish mystery.”
FILMSTARTS
“Atmospherically drifting night and ghost film.”
In Bangkok's neon-lit underbelly, Jen (Jutamat Lamoon) exists between the front desk of a serviced apartment building and the hotel rooms of strangers, where she trades intimacy for survival. What she sells is time, closeness – sometimes just a moment. When one of these encounters escalates, Wason (Wason Dokkathum) – a bartender carrying secrets of his own – steps in to save her. For a brief time, they drift together through the city’s humid nights, finding solace in their shared brokenness. One morning, Jen vanishes without warning – no trace, no explanation, no goodbye. Her flatmate Pim (Jutarat Burinok) begins to search and Wason follows. Their investigation spirals through Bangkok's maze of empty alleyways, seedy rooms, and dangerous debts, chasing memories that dissolve like smoke in the humid air. The trail leads them all the way to the Cambodian border – but in a city where nothing is as it seems, perhaps Jen never left Bangkok at all.
Director: Roderick Warich
Genre: Melodrama, Romance, Vibe Cinema, Ghost-Story
Original title: Funeral Casino Blues
English title: Funeral Casino Blues
Country of production: Germany
Year of production: 2025
Length: 153 min
Color: Color
Shooting format: 4K
Screening format: DCP, 4K FLAT, 1.85:1, COLOR un-encrypted, 25 fps
Original language: Thai
Subtitles: English, Italian
Cast: Jutamat Lamoon, Wason Dokkathum, Jutarat Burinok
Scriptwriter: Roderick Warich
Director of photography: Roland Stuprich
Editor: Hannes Bruun
Sound design: Dominik Leube
Sound mixing: Dominik Leube
Music: John Gürtler
Producers: Viktoria Stolpe
Co-producers: Dominik Rockenmaier
Production company: The Barricades
Co-production company: 2557 – Films
Supported by: BKM, KJDF
Venice FF - World Premiere - Horizons Competition
Bangkok International Film Festival, Thailand