Mania

After losing her daughter, Tubtim punished herself by denying herself joy.

Three girls gather behind an abandoned shipping container to form a cult—arguing, cursing an ex-boyfriend (that bastard Film), and worshiping dolphins—in search of meaning in a senseless world.

Amidst her best friend’s party overflowing with secrets and unspoken desires, Lisa realizes that her love with the seemingly perfect prince is not a fairy tale but a cruel act of ghosting. Navigating through all her timelines, she explores her endless possibilities of her destinies. Introducing in a new montage form, a collage of in-concluded narratives, The Kingdom of Fairies weaves fragments inspired by the fleeting aesthetics and unfinished narratives of TikTok and short-reel culture. The film drifts through the emotional urgency and spectacle of perfection that define our hyperconnected age, where love becomes simulation, heartbreak becomes performance, and identity becomes mimicry shaped by algorithmic desire. In a world numbed by excess, the longing to rediscover magic and the freedom to feel becomes a quiet act of resistance.

After the sudden death of a troupe’s lead molam actress, Biw is chosen as her temporary replacement. As the troupe heads to the capital, she must leave behind her bedridden mother and choose between her dream and her family.