Sompot Chidgasornpongse
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- April 16, 1980
- Birthplace
- Bangkok, Thailand
Sompot Chidgasornpongse graduated with a bachelor's degree in architecture from Chulalongkorn university, and an MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts. He's been working closely with Apichatpong Weerasethakul as assistant director in many films, including Tropical Malady, Syndromes and a Century, Cemetery of Splendour, and Memoria. His personal short films were shown at various international film festivals around the world, such as Oberhausen, Rotterdam, Viennale, Visions du Réel, Indielisboa, Signes de Nuit, etc. His works explore the possibility of representing everyday life in a creative and thought-provoking way. His first feature documentary, Railway Sleepers, had its World premiere in Documentary Competition at Busan International Film Festival, and European premiere in the Forum section at Berlinale. Since then, the film has been traveling to many international film festivals worldwide, including True/False, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Melbourne IFF, Pravo Ljudsku FF, RIDM, Luang Prabang FF, TIDF, etc. He's also a Berlinale Talents alumnus (as director and editor), and Talents Tokyo alumnus. Sompot is based in Bangkok.
Filmography
9 Temples to Heaven 2026
Director, Writer, Editor
The Physical Realm 2023
Director, Writer
Railway Sleepers 2017
Director of Photography, Editor, Director, Writer
Home Video (Made in Thai Town) 2010
Director
Diseases and a Hundred Year Period 2008
Director of Photography, Director, Producer, Writer
Bangkok in the Evening 2005
Director
To Infinity and Beyond 2004
Director, Producer, Screenplay, Editor
Memoria 2021
Assistant Director, Script Supervisor
Fever Room 2015
First Assistant Director
Vapour 2015
First Assistant Director
Cemetery of Splendor 2015
First Assistant Director
Twenty Cigarettes 2011
as Self
Mobile Men 2008
Assistant Director
Syndromes and a Century 2006
Second Assistant Director
Ghost of Asia 2005
Production Office Assistant, Assistant Director
Worldly Desires 2005
Editor, Assistant Director, Script
Tropical Malady 2004
Second Assistant Director
My First Boyfriend 2004
Editor
Credits from TMDB.