9 TEMPLES TO HEAVEN
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After a fortune teller warns 63-year-old Sakol that his elderly mother may soon die, he becomes determined to alter her fate. His solution: gather the family for an ambitious one-day pilgrimage to nine temples, making merit in hopes of prolonging her life. Just weeks before his mother’s birthday, nine family members pile together for a journey through Thailand’s magnificent temples, carrying with them generations of affection, resentment, obligation, and unresolved tension.
As the day stretches on and the temples begin to blur together, old disagreements surface, personalities collide, and their increasingly exhausted grandmother begins to question the pilgrimage itself. Director Sompot Chidgasornpongse transforms a distinctly Thai spiritual tradition into a tender, wryly observed family odyssey about mortality, faith, and the complicated ways families express love. Both intimate and gently humorous, 9 TEMPLES TO HEAVEN asks whether devotion can truly change fate, or whether the greater blessing lies in simply being together while there is still time. World Premiere, Cannes Film Festival.
This film is nominated for the HIFF 2026 Kau Ka Hōkū Award presented by Hawaiian Airlines.
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