Gay movie specialist and arthouse distributor Strand Releasing has picked up US rights to gay director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s prize winning movie Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.

The Thai film, which took top prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is about a dying man who is visited by the spirits of his loved ones in human and animal form while he spends his last days out in the the wilderness. It’s a real curiosity (and the trailer doesn’t help much) but surely one to watch. Director Weerasethakul – affectionately referred to as ‘Joe’ in the West – has a unique voice and vision and often references his own sexuality in his films, along with commons themes like nature, dreams and reincarnation.

Strand are planning to release Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives sometime next year. I, on the other hand, can barely recall what happened before Sunday morning…