Country: Thailand
Directed by Panu Aree,Kong Ritcdee and Kaweenipon Ketprasit
Baby Arabia is a simple vivid documentary about a well known in Thailand naseb band (a band that plays Malay-Arab music). Is true that the film seems to not go very deep ,having a rather mainstream , ordinary approach and many weak sides . However, this is not the case: narrating the story of the various singers and musicians involved with the band, the directors use this opportunity to depict cultural and religious issues that rarely are discussed in Thai cinema and to present the every day life of the large Muslim community of Thailand. I consider the film as a fresh air in an industry that produces tones of stupid melodramas, teen love stories and idiotic ghost terror movies, a path that leads to a different cinema that trying to talk about the real society and real people: under this light the film doesn't seem mainstream at all!
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