A Useful Ghost
APRIL 26 · 19.00
SCREENING + DISCUSSION · MAMM
A Useful Ghost
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke • Thailand • 2025 • 130 min
FEATURES COMPETITION
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.
After the Screening: Discussion
With
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, director, A Useful Ghost
Ratchapoom is a filmmaker of Teo-chew–Hainanese descent, born and raised in Bangkok. He works full-time as a screenwriter for a studio, and also teaches film theory and screenwriting, while working as a film critic. In 2020, he was selected for the Berlinale Talents program. His short film Red Aninsri; Or, Tiptoeing on the Still Trembling Berlin Wall won the Junior Jury Award at the Locarno Film Festival in 2020. A Useful Ghost is his first feature film.
Moderator
Pablo Bedoya Molina, historian and researcher
Pablo works at the intersection of sexuality, queer studies, and the politics of memory. His work connects archival research with contemporary debates on haunting, political memory, and the ways societies decide which lives and histories are allowed to linger.
Co-hosted by
Fantasmagoría
A film festival held in Medellín that focuses on fantasy, horror, and experimental storytelling.
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
Director | Thailand
Pablo Bedoya Molina
Historian | Medellín, Colombia