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

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)

Trailer

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