A Simulcast Film Screening & Discussion

Breaking the Cycle, a film by A Saransate and Thanakrit, captures the political awakening among Thais after the rise and fall of Thanathorn, a young politician who calls to end the cycle of coup d'etat in the 2019 election.

This film tracks the rise and fall of Thailand’s Freedom Forward Party and the political movement to restrain the Thai military’s power in 2018, before the party was dissolved by the Constitutional Court in 2020. The de facto successor party to the movement was again dissolved by the Constitutional Court earlier this month. The film has been a hit in Thailand and at film festivals since its release in May and offers an amazing insight into the history of military rule in Thailand.

Full Preview is available here - https://youtu.be/d3wrIM1n7uE?si=9lYxol-OFzPXQCrP.

The Center for Southeast Asian Studies will be screening the film at NIU, joining many other universities for a simulcast, after which all can participate in Q & A together.

Free and open to the public.