Pain of Silence

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TH (EN Subs) – Exclusive at House Samyan “Pain of Silence” is a powerful documentary that gives voice to five masters of Thai traditional arts, whose lives and crafts stand on the verge of disappearance. Through a series of intimate, revealing interviews, the film captures their artistry, resilience, and the profound challenges they face as modernization and the COVID-19 pandemic threatened to dilute and destroy cultural heritage. The stories span the delicate mechanics of Hun Lakhon Lek Sippathum Kumnai (Thai traditional puppetry); the cultural identity of the Thai Song Dam ethnic group; the human-puppet ensemble Mae Phe Tai Hun Lakhon Khon; the monumental leather shadow-play Nung Yai; and the remarkable artistry of blind Phin (Thai lute) player Boonma Khaowong. Each story opens a window into a world where craft is inseparable from identity, ritual, and survival. Rather than presenting these traditions as relics, “Pain of Silence” reveals them as living practices that continue to a