A Useful Ghost
Singapore Premiere
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke Thailand, Singapore, France 2025 130 min R21 (Sexual Scenes and Some Homosexual Content)
In this genre-bending satire on love, politics and memory, a ghost returns to haunt a vacuum cleaner and prove her love for her living husband.
Having died tragically from dust pollution, Nat returns to her husband by possessing a vacuum cleaner manufactured in his family-run factory. Though they rekindle their bond, her husband’s family stands in the way of their unusual relationship. Meanwhile, other spiritual disturbances are afoot at the factory where a worker has died from unsafe working conditions. Eager to placate the family and prove herself “useful”, Nat offers to exorcise the other displaced spirits, even if that means doing away with a few suffering souls…
Strangely vulnerable yet fiercely political, the film casts light on the classism and oppression that haunts Thailand’s history, questioning the sacrifices made in the name of political expediency.
Synopsis Writer: Krystalle Teh
Q&A with Filmmaker(s), Audience Choice Award
6 Dec, Sat 7:00PM / 130 min
Golden Village Cineleisure, Hall 3
Q&A with Filmmaker(s), Audience Choice Award
7 Dec, Sun 11:00AM / 130 min
Golden Village Suntec, Hall 7
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A Useful Ghost
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Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
Thailand, Singapore, France
2025
Thai
English
130 min
R21 (Sexual Scenes and Some Homosexual Content)
Singapore Premiere
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke is a Thai filmmaker of Teochew-Hainanese descent. He writes television series and is also a lecturer and critic. His short Red Aninsri; Or, Tiptoeing on the Still Trembling Berlin Wall (2020) won the Junior Jury award at Locarno. His debut feature A Useful Ghost won the Grand Prize at Cannes’ Critics’ Week.
Davika Hoorne,
Witsarut Himmarat,
Apasiri Nitibhon
Cattleya Paosrijaroen,
Soros Sukhum,
Karim Aitouna,
Tan Si En
