Mindfulness and Murder

Monday October 3rd | 20.30
De Balie | Grote zaal
English Subtitles
+ Q&A

Thailand - 90 min - 2011 

When a homeless boy is murdered in the grounds of a Buddhist monastery in Bangkok, the police do too little to solve the crime, leaving Father Ananda - a former homicide detective - to investigate the murder.
How often do you come across a monk detective? You will in Mindfulness & Murder. 


The story opens with the discovery of the body, which has been dumped in a bathroom in the back of the monastery. The body is that of a young man, pushed face first into an earthern water jar.

Ananda takes the body out of the water and discovers that the boy has a candle shoved in his mouth and his eyes have been gouged out. 
Ananda begins investigating the clues for himself. He soon discovers that there is drug dealing going on at his temple. A monk goes missing. Has he fled the scene after killing the boy? Ananda keeps at it, unravelling the clues one by one until he discovers what happened to both the boy and the missing monk… 

Director: Tom Waller
With: Vithaya Pansringarm, Jaran Petcharoen, Way Prinya, Sunon Wachirawarakarn a.o.
Producers: Michael Pritchett, Tom Waller
Co-producer: Oscar Kahar
Screenplay: Vithaya Pansringarm, Tom Waller, Nick Wilgus
Based on the novel "Mindfulness and Murder" by Nick Wilgus
Director of photography: Wade Muller
Editor: Sawit Prasertphan
© De Warrenne Pictures Co. Ltd. 2010.