Jai
Asian Cinema
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14m
Directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong | 14 mins | 2007
Anticipating the questions around the limits of representation posed in "By the Time It Gets Dark" (2016), in "Jai", documentary elements bleed into the making of a fiction film about the landmark 1975 seizure and occupation of the Hara Factory by its women workers.
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