Hope Frozen (2019)
- Original title
- ความหวังแช่แข็ง: ขอเกิดอีกครั้ง
- Directed by
- Pailin Wedel
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Thailand
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 24 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Thai couple decides to cryogenically preserve their three-year-old daughter's body after she dies from brain cancer. The documentary follows their journey and the reactions of those around them.
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What happens
Hope Frozen is a 2019 Thai documentary film directed and co-written by Pailin Wedel, together with Nina Ijäs, and released by 2050 Productions. It follows a Thai couple who, after their three-year-old daughter dies of brain cancer in 2015, decide to have her body cryogenically preserved. Hope Frozen premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2019, where it won the Best International Feature Documentary award, and was shown at several documentary film festivals. The documentary was picked up for distribution by Netflix under the title Hope Frozen: A Quest to Live Twice, and was released on the platform on September 15, 2020. It won the 49th International Emmy Award for Best Documentary in 2021, becoming the first Thai production to win an International Emmy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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