The Edge of Daybreak
Thailand
Taiki Sakpisit
The Edge of Daybreak examines the devastating psychological landscape of a dysfunctional family as it falls from grace in the shadow of wars.
1990s, Ploy is a rising movie star turned R-Rated movie actress receives a phone call concern- ing Pailin her estranged motherʼs failed suicide attempt. At the hospital, mother and daughter reconcile the wounded past. Pailin gives Ploy a photo album from her past. On Pailinʼs final request, Ploy euthanizes her mother.
1970s, somewhere in a remote village around the Thai-Laos border, the meteorite falls into a pond in the woods near the factory, which is run by Ployʼs father, Prasat, an aging spymaster. This strange incident causes Ploy, who chases after a cat and falls into a pond and other village children into a state of avolition. Pailin returns from a sanatorium where she has been recuperated from a mental breakdown to look after her daughter. She reunites with Doctor Nakorn, the fiancée of Pailinʼs deceased sister Nampueng, who has been taken care of Ploy. The two rekindle their lost love.
Pailin and the doctor consume a long suppressing romance. Later that night, the doctorʼs disappearance occurs with the unexpected return of Prasat, Pailinʼs husband. The husband and wife are forced to face the wounds of marriage, inner demons, uncompromising dark- ness and traumatic past.
Time seems to be suspended in the presence of meteorite.
Pailin, on her daughterʼs request, traces down the missing cat near the pond and encounters the injured forty-four years-old water buffalo named Tongpan who the villagers believe to be the sacred forest Spirit. She comforts the dying creature whose blood drains into the pond and flows into the river causing a mysterious force. Pailin passes out in the woods. Mean- while, the villagers, believing the meteorite and the death of Tongpan to be the bad omens, begin a secretive ritual.
1990s, Ploy is a rising movie star turned R-Rated movie actress receives a phone call concern- ing Pailin her estranged motherʼs failed suicide attempt. At the hospital, mother and daughter reconcile the wounded past. Pailin gives Ploy a photo album from her past. On Pailinʼs final request, Ploy euthanizes her mother.
1970s, somewhere in a remote village around the Thai-Laos border, the meteorite falls into a pond in the woods near the factory, which is run by Ployʼs father, Prasat, an aging spymaster. This strange incident causes Ploy, who chases after a cat and falls into a pond and other village children into a state of avolition. Pailin returns from a sanatorium where she has been recuperated from a mental breakdown to look after her daughter. She reunites with Doctor Nakorn, the fiancée of Pailinʼs deceased sister Nampueng, who has been taken care of Ploy. The two rekindle their lost love.
Pailin and the doctor consume a long suppressing romance. Later that night, the doctorʼs disappearance occurs with the unexpected return of Prasat, Pailinʼs husband. The husband and wife are forced to face the wounds of marriage, inner demons, uncompromising dark- ness and traumatic past.
Time seems to be suspended in the presence of meteorite.
Pailin, on her daughterʼs request, traces down the missing cat near the pond and encounters the injured forty-four years-old water buffalo named Tongpan who the villagers believe to be the sacred forest Spirit. She comforts the dying creature whose blood drains into the pond and flows into the river causing a mysterious force. Pailin passes out in the woods. Mean- while, the villagers, believing the meteorite and the death of Tongpan to be the bad omens, begin a secretive ritual.
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Festivals and Awards:
Rotterdam 2021: in competition
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