Director: Sorayos Prapapan
Screenplay: Sorayos Prapapan
Producer: Sorayos Prapapan, Donsaron Kovitvanitcha
Co-Producers: Anthony Chen, Tan Si En, Denis Vaslin, Jeremy Zelnik,
Armi Rae Cacanindin
Production company: Minimal Animal
Co-production company: Giraffe Pictures, Dibona Films, Volya Films, Cinematografica Films
Line producer: Cattleya Paosrijaroen, Soros Sukhum, Fleur Knopperts
Cinematographer: Lim Teck Siang
Sound Design: Jaim Sahuleka VCA
Editor: Carlo Francisco Manatad
Composer: Nattapong Pipattanasub, Supanut Decha-umphai
Production Designer: Rasiguet Sookkarn
Casting director: Soifa Saenkhamkon, Tippawan Narintorn
Cast: Korndanai Marc Dautzenberg, Winyu Wongsurawat

• Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland (3 – 13 August, 2022)
  Concorso Cineasti Del Presente
• Busan International Film Festival, South Korea (5 – 14 October, 2022)
  A Window on Asian Cinema
• Jakarta Film Week, Indonesia (13 – 16 October, 2022)
  Global Feature Competition
• Lima Alterna Festival Internacional de Cine, Peru (13 – 23 October, 2022)
  International Competition
• BaliMakarya Film Festival, Indonesia (16 – 21 October, 2022)
  Main Competition
• Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, Hong Kong (25 October – 13 November, 2022)
  New Talent Awards Won: New Talent Award
• Tokyo FILMex International Film Festival, Japan (29 October – 6 November, 2022)
  Main competition
• Golden Horse Film Festival, Taiwan (2 – 20 November, 2022)
  Windows on Asia & NETPAC Award Candidate
• Cork International Film Festival, Ireland (10 – 20 November, 2022)
  Youth Jury Award competition
• Int. Film Festival of India (IFFI Goa), India (20 – 28 November, 2022)
  Cinema of the World section
• Five Flavours Asian Film Festival, Poland (16 November – 4 December, 2022)
  New Asian Cinema Competition Won: Best Film
• Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore (24 November – 4 December, 2022)
  Asian Feature Film Competition Special Mention
• Jogja-NETPAC Asian FF (JAFF), Indonesia (26 November – 3 December, 2022)
  Main Competition
• Hainan Island International Film Festival, China (18 – 25 December, 2022)
  Panorama
• Novos Cinemas. Pontevedra International Film Festival, Spain (13 – 18 December, 2022)
  Main Competition Won: Young Jury Award for Best Director
• Pame International Film Festival, Nepal (27 – 31 December, 2022)
  Official Selection
• International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands (25 January – 5 February, 2023)
  Harbour
• LuxFilmFest, Belgium (2 – 12 March, 2023)
  Official Selection out of competition
• Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF), United Kingdom (3 – 5 March, 2023)
  Official Selection
• CinemAsia Film Festival, the Netherlands (7 – 12 March, 2023)
  Competition
• Colorado Dragon Boat Film Festival, United States (9 – 12 March, 2023)
  Official Selection – Opening night presentation
• Helsinki Cine Aasia, Finland (16 – 19 March, 2023)
• Bengaluru International Film Festival, India (23 – 30 March, 2023)
  Cinema of the World section
• New Directors/New Films, United States (29 March – 9 April, 2023)
  Official Selection
• Zlín Film Festival – Int. FF for Children and Youth, Czech Republic (1 – 7 June, 2023)
  Panorama
• Austin Asian American FF, United States (21 – 25 June, 2023)
  Official Selection
• Festival Internacional de Cine Guanajuato, Mexico (20 – 31 July, 2023)
  International Feature Film Competition
• New Zealand International Film Festival, New Zealand (22 July – 2 August, 2023)
  (screening in Auckland & Wellington)
  Official Selection
• FICDEH – Human Rights International Film Festival, Colombia (10 – 17 August, 2023)
  Official Selection
• Salam International Youth Film Festival, Azerbaijan (28 – 31 August, 2023)
  Official Selection
• Children’s Film Festival Kerala, India (8 – 10 September, 2023)
  Official Selection
• Tripoli Film Festival, Lebanon (21 – 28 September, 2023)
  Feature Competition
• Festival Int. de Cine de Valdivia, Chile (9 – 15 October, 2023)
  Youth Feature Competition Won: Youth Jury Award
• unthaitled x KAUM Film+++festival: Wandering Salon, Germany (14 October, 2023)
• Molodist International Film Festival, Ukraine (21 – 29 October, 2023)
  FORMA
• Asian Film Festival Barcelona, Spain (25 October – 5 November, 2023)
  Official Selection
• Talents Tokyo Week, Japan (3 – 13 November, 2023)
  Filmmakers’ Homecoming
• Braunschweig Int. Film Festival, Germany (6 – 12 November, 2023)
  New International Cinema
• Green Mountain Film Festival, United States (14 – 17 March, 2024)
  Official Selection
• Golden Ger International Film Festival, Mongolia (8 – 12 May, 2024)

“An ambiguous and morally charged portrait of a youth rebellion and a study of an oppressive institutional environment”
“a heart-breaking portrait of a conformist rebellion”
Review – Maja Korbecka – EasternKicks.com

“One of the more unlikely films to emerge from this year’s Locarno is the Thai debut Arnold Is a Model Student”
“but in Model Student those ideas feel subtly baked-in, never explicitly explained but always clear. As the film keeps you on your toes, attuned to the wider politics, subtexts become sharper.”
Review – Rory O’Connor – The Film Stage

“this quietly angry film humorously examines the country’s educational hypocrisies”
Review – John Bleasdale – BFI Sight and Sound

“Despite the clarity and severity of its political stance, the film nevertheless maintains a carefully controlled deadpan tone, deploying mostly static handheld shots and unhurried editing to force the absurdities of Thai society to speak for themselves”
Review – David Robb – Slant

“The film is a growing-up story of a model student in a teen drama develops into a critique of the repressive and corrupt education system in Thailand, implicating even the whole social and political establishment. It strikes a perfect balance between outrage and irreverence. Its satire on the elite and the privileged is subtle but hits the bullseye. The director shows a rare maturity in his feature debut by tackling the subject with urgent social concerns in an unruffled, even humorous manners.”
Jury statement Hong Kong Asian Film Festival

Interview: ‘Arnold Is a Model Student’: Sorayos Prapapan’s Debut, Inspired in Part by Thailand’s Bad Student Movement – Srikanth Srinivasan & Andrew Northrop – Variety