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Solids by the Seashore (Din Fah Mahasamutr)
Production Country (s) Thailand Production Company (s) Diversion
Genre Drama Production Spec 4K / Color / 100 min
Production Stage
(or Project Status)		 Script Development Expected Date of Completion December 2020
Total Budget
(Negative Cost)		 710,000 USD Confirmed Financing 66,000 USD
Director Patiparn Boontarig Email of Director -
Profile of the Director Patiparn Boontarig graduated in Film and Photography at Thammasat University in Bangkok, and has worked on a number of shorts and documentaries as director and screenwriter. His latest short A SPACE BETWEEN THE OCEAN AND ME (2015) was selected at Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival, Joutomaa Festival in Finland, and others. He has attended international film workshops such as Busan Asian Film Academy 2014 and NAFF Fantastic Film School 2015, and MOFILM Academy for Southeast Asian Filmmakers, among others. He was assistant director to Phuttiphong Aroonpheng’s MANTA RAY (2018 Venice Film Festival).
Producer (s) Chatchai Chaiyon / Mai Meksawan Email of Producer (s) yeesokco@yahoo.com
maimeksawan@gmail.com
Profile of the Producer (s) Chatchai Chaiyon studied fine arts at Bangkok's Silpakorn University. He started working in Thai movie industry as art director and costume designer since 2000, where he worked on multiple film productions with big name Thai directors including Apichatpong Weerasethakul. He founded an artistic collective Mit Out Sound Films, together with Jakrawal Nilthamrong and Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, to put a focus on developing independent film projects outside Thai commercial movie systems. In 2015, he produced independent art house title VANISHING POINT (dir. Jakrawal Nilthamrong), winner of Tiger award at 2015 IFFR. His latest project is Phuttiphong Aroonpheng's feature debut, MANTA RAY.

Mai Meksawan has worked at the Bangkok International Film Festival since 2004 until the festival's final edition in 2009. He also programmed several other festivals in Thailand. In 2007 he co-founded, with Pimpaka Towira and Ruengsang Sripaoraya, Extra Virgin – one of the leading independent production companies in Thailand. Its most successful title, AGRARIAN UTOPIA (dir. Uruphong Raksasad) screened in more than 100 film festivals worldwide and received 11 international awards. He founded Diversion in 2014. His most recent film as producer is MANTA RAY (dir. Phuttiphong Aroonpheng), winner of Orizzonti Award for Best Film at 2018 Venice Film Festival.
Logline In a corrupted southern Thai town struggling with its major environmental damage, a young Muslim woman is facing an inner struggle against the imposing wall of her cultural and religious background, as she develops a relationship with a female artist from out of town.
Synopsis Shati is a young muslim woman in Songkhla, south of Thailand. She is a local poet currently struggling with a writer’s block. One day, on a once-sandy beach which is now completely replaced by artificial concrete seawalls, she meets Fon, an artist from Bangkok in town for her arts exhibition about coastal erosions – an ongoing environmental crisis in the region.

The relationship between the two women progresses – in parallel to Shati’s nostalgic recalls of childhood tales she has been told by her beloved grandmother. As she slowly realizes the gravity of her feelings for Fon, she cannot avoid facing an inner struggle between her own desires and what she has been taught to believe in her culture to be sinful.

Shati’s grandmother suffers from a stroke and is hospitalized. At a moment she find herself at her most vulnerable, Fon mysteriously disappears, leaving her suspended in a limbo of longing — until they reunite in a clash of emotions that results in the liberation and acceptance of both their identities.

Following the abandonment of her religious belief, a series of ominous and otherworldly events start to occur – strangely resembling her grandmother’s old folklores. A hail of meteors fall from the sky. Dark shadows permeate the town. Reality and faith seem to collide and become inseparable. Monsoon season arrives, as her grandmother is on life support machine, she sets to fight her internal turbulence and choose between reconciling with her faith, or continuing on her own path.