Despite the censors, there are still plenty of indie Thai films to see

Censors have banned one of the Thai entries in this year's World Film Festival of Bangkok, but there remains an exceptionally strong selection of experimental homegrown shorts.

Thunska Pansittivorakul's controversial "This Area is Under Quarantine" went unrated by the Culture Ministry, meaning it would have been illegal to show the politically and sexually charged film.

You can still watch "A Letter to Uncle Boonmee", a short by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who battled censors over his 2006 feature "Syndromes and a Century". With a wooden "spaceship" in the village of Nabua, Nakhon Phanom, "Boonmee" is part of the filmmaker's larger "Primitive" art project that's on show in Liverpool and Paris. It's a surreal examination of the village's violent past involving a 1965 anti-communist purge by Thai government troops. See it on Monday at 6.15 or on November 15 at 11am.

Thai cinema itself is examined in "I Am the Director", in which young filmmaker Nitchapoom Chaianun interviews nine directors - five established ones and four aspiring helmers. It's showing on Sunday at 3.20 and on Tuesday at 1.

There's a variety of experimental shorts in the "Guts Short Programme 1" on Sunday at 1 and next Friday at 3.30, surrealism in the 41-minute drama "Bodily Fluid is So Revolutionary" on Wednesday at 11 and existential angst in "Lost Nation" with Zart Tancharoen tomorrow at 6.30 and Sunday at 11.

Follow the path of young monk in Visra Vichit-Vadakan's "In Space", part of the Short Wave programme on Thursday at 7 and November 14 at 4.

Determination is captured by the characters in the docu-drama "Colours of Our Hearts", in which director Supamok Silarak weaves together true stories of migrant workers and minority families as they aspire for better lives and to escape from the trap of statelessness. It shows on November 14 at 6.45 and on November 15 at 5.