Synopsis

Working in HR, Fren closely observes people’s lives through interviews with numerous young new hires at her unjust company. No one knows she’s one month pregnant and quietly grappling with whether to bring a child into this difficult world.

Festivals & Awards

2025 82nd Venice Film Festival – Orizzonti

Scriptwriter(s)

Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit

Producer(s)

Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, Pacharin Surawatanapongs

Executive Producer(s)

Key Casts

Prapamonton Eiamchan, Paopetch Charoensook, Chanakan Rattana-Udom, Pimmada Chaisaksoen

Curators’ note

On the ultrasound screen, a tiny black dot becomes the most consequential variable in Fren’s life. As she spends her days assessing other people’s potential in interviews, she also weighs the future of the “human resource” taking shape inside her. The steady rhythm of the treadmill and the classical music playing in the car mark an unspoken negotiation with this new life. Her husband’s protection resembles another inescapable one-way road, while the turbulence and noise beyond the car window are hers to face alone. Moving at a measured pace, the film turns a pregnant woman’s anxiety into a lens on the impasse of modern existence, where silence becomes both strength and resolve. (Yaxuan Dai)

Director’s Statement

Apart from death, the act of bringing a new life into the world compels us to reflect on the true meaning of life and its connections to family, society, the economy, politics, religion, and science. In the past decade, the decline in birth rates in many parts of the world reflects a shared sentiment of people in this era. HUMAN RESOURCE is a film that explores and captures contemporary human life, the shifting definition of family, and existence in a world that will never be the same again.