Human Resource
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Theatrical Screenings
Kinoteka 1
Kinoteka 3
Kinoteka 1
Kinoteka 4
Film description
Fren works in the HR department of a large Thai corporation whose management – invisible yet omnipresent – routinely abuses employees’ rights, subjecting them to aggression in a fashionable setting and within a seemingly dynamic team. She is given a morally ambiguous task: to hire someone who will accept mistreatment without protest. At the same time, she discovers she is pregnant – something unknown even to her partner, with whom her relationship is slowly dying.
In his most sombre film to date, Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, a favourite of the Five Flavours audience, paints a picture of the corporate labyrinth with austere elegance, where human lives are treated as resources to be shifted and exploited. In the film’s constructed reality, whose title itself sounds like a painfully grating oxymoron, the director masterfully employs silence, repetitive gestures and minimalist narration to create an atmosphere of anxiety, as stifling and sterile as an open–plan office. It is both a satire on work culture and a poignant study of loneliness: subtle and sophisticated, resonating with Thailand’s fertility crisis and the oppression of everyday life. “Human Resource” leaves behind a sense of unease that lingers long after the screening.
text:
Łukasz Mańkowski
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit
Born in 1984, he studied Chinese philology at the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Film critic, scriptwriter, author of many commercials, and the co-founder of Third Class Citizen, a Thai group uniting film activists. He participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus and the 2013 Biennale College in Venice. He won the Five Flavours competition in 2013 with his film "36", and then again in 2018 with "Die Tomorrow". He is famous for portraying the millennial generation and for his beloved ad aesthetic.
2006 Bangkok Tanks (k.m.)
2012 36
2013 Mary is Happy, Mary is Happy
2014 The Master (dok.)
2015 Atak serca / Heart Attack / Freelance: Ham puay... Ham phak... Ham rak mor
2017 Umrzesz jutro / Die Tomorrow
2019 Happy Old Year
2022 Za szybcy, za czuli / Fast Feel & Love
2025 Zasób ludzki / Human Resource
