Human Resource (Thailand, 2025, 122′)

Tuesday, October 6, 2:30 p.m., Cinema Massimo, Theater 3

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International title: Human Resources
Original title: Phanakngan Mai (Prod Rap Wai Phicharana)
Director, screenplay: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit 
Photography: Natdanai Naksuwarn
Edit: Manussa Vorasingha
Music: Mellow Tunes (Siwat Homkham)
Production: GDH 559, Happy Ending Film, One Cool Connect, Jai Studios

Fren works at the Human Resources office of a major company that demands peak efficiency and flexibility. She closely observes people’s lives through interviews with numerous young new hires. Her own existence unfolds in a cycle of work, commuting through Bangkok traffic with her partner, quick sez, silent dinners, breakfast and returning to the office. Each day the situations repeat themselves. Yet nobody knows that Fren is one month pregnant while contemplating whether to bring her child in this harsh world or to have an abortion, an option that’s legal in the country within the first three months of pregnancy. 

Human Resources, premiering at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, introduces us to urban Bangkok, its skyscrapers, and its upper-middle class. 

Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit.Screenwriter and director born in Bangkok in 1984, in 2012, he debuted with his long feature film 36, winning the New Currents Award in Busan Festival. With his second artwork Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy he gained international recognition putting himself as one of the most interesting voices of new Thai cinema, able to move between studio and independent productions. His filmography includes fictional long feature films and documentaries, numerous short movies and music videos. 

Partial filmography: 36 (2012), Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy (2013), The Master (doc., 2014), Heart Attack (2015), Die Tomorrow (2017), BNK48: Girls Don’t Cry (doc., 2018), Happy Old Year (2019), Fast & Feel Love (2022), Human Resource (2025).