BANGKOK (AP) -- Religion can be a tough sell nowadays, so instead of waiting for disciples to make their way to temple, some promoters brought 36 films with Buddhist themes to the heart of modern Thailand earlier this month.... full story ![]()

Thai Buddhist monks at the Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi province have been pictured stroking and playing with the tigers and one even put his hands in an adult's mouth.
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'Spark: A Burning Man Story,' which was shown at the South by Southwest film festival, documents what goes into putting on the mammoth festival each year.
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FOUR people have been killed and more than 20 injured when a homemade bomb was detonated during a fight at a Buddhist festival in northeast Thailand.
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It was a feeling just below my navel I've never experienced before, a feeling so intense I felt like I'd lost control. I just lay on the ground writhing around not in pain, but in consciousness. In my first day of meditation I had awakened a part of me I never knew existed. Bang Mun Nak is located 300km (186mi) north of Bangkok. It's not on the tourist track at all, though...
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The Black Bear Film Festival, held annually at the Milford Theatre, is preparing for its 14th season.
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Makha Bucha marks the first full moon day which falls on the third lunar month and is one of the most important dates in the Buddhist religious calender.
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The poster for the 66th Cannes Film Festival features Hollywood couple Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward from Melville Shavelson's 1963 film " A New Kind of Love." The festival runs from 15th to...
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Nontawat Numbenchapol's film about border row and 2011 red-shirt protests deemed 'threat to national security'A Thai documentary that examines recent political protests and a border spat with Cambodia has been banned by the country's government as "a threat to national security and international relations".Nontawat Numbenchapol's documentary Boundary zeroes in on a soldier...
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Thai censors overturn ban on film about Thai-Cambodian border conflict
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The Berlin Film Festival – known in Germany as the Berlinale – is currently taking place in the Teutonic capital city. On Saturday evening the festival’s premier film, Les Misérables, was shown. It has not yet gone into general release in Germany. The festival welcomed the film’s high-profile stars, including Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, to the red carpet.
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