Sompot Chidgasornpongse earned his MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts. While working as an assistant director on several of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s films, including Tropical Malady (2004) and Syndromes and a Century (2006), he continued to make his own short films, which were invited to numerous international film festivals, including Rotterdam and Oberhausen. His first feature-length documentary, Railway Sleepers (2016), was screened in the Wide Angle section at the Busan Internationa Film Festival and at the Berlinale Forum. 9 Temples to Heaven is his first dramatic feature and was screened at the 2026 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
