A year after it screened at the 4th World Film Festival of Bangkok, Tsai Ming-liang's surreal drama, I Don't Want to Sleep Alone, opens this week in a limited run at House on RCA.

Lee Kang-sheng stars as a guy who is beaten up in Kuala Lumpur, at the height of the haze season. He finds himself in the care of a Malay man and a Chinese-Malaysian woman.

I didn't get the chance to see this film last year, so I'm glad House has brought it back for a run. Though I can't say much more about it, I believe it to be worth seeing.

Meanwhile, the World Film Festival of Bangkok closes on Sunday. There are many films there worth seeing. In a nice segue from I Don't Want to Sleep Alone, there is Help Me Eros, the directorial debut by Tsai Ming-liang's long-time collaborator, Lee Kang-sheng. It screens at 5:20pm on Friday.

Others on my watchlist:

• Songs of Eh Doh Shi - A rare glimpse into the Karen community that straddles the Thai-Burmese border of the north - a community that is under threat no matter what side of the border its people are on. 1pm on Thursday.
• To Each His Own Cinema - An anthology of 35 short films commissioned by the Cannes Film Festival that inludes works by the Coen Brothers, Roman Polanski, Takeshi Kitano, Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Yimou, David Cronenberg and many others. 8.20pm on Thursday and 5.40pm on Sunday. 
• The Band's Visit - An Egyptian police band ends up stranded in a small Israeli town. This was Israel's original choice for the (American) Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but it was turned down because there is too much English (or not enough "foreign" language). The claustrophobic war drama, Beaufort, which was shown at the Bangkok International Film Festival, was sent instead. The Band's Visit screens at 3:20pm on Friday.
• Driving With My Wife's Lover - A guy takes a ride with his wife's taxi-driver lover in what looks to be an edgy Korean film. It's also screening at 5:20pm on Friday, and I may opt for this one, because it might be harder to find after it leaves the fest than Help Me Eros.
• The Man from London - This is a new film, directed by Hungarian iconoclast Bela Tarr, in black and white. I'm not sure what it's about, but I want to see it. 8.10pm on Saturday and 3.30pm on Sunday.
• I Served the King of England - Here's the latest film by Czech legend Jiri Menzel, set in Nazi-occupied Prague. 1pm on Sunday.
• Mad About Democracy - Nation Channel documentarian  Pipope Panitchpakdi questions what Thai parents are teaching their home-schooled children about democracy - in a country where democracy has barely ever existed. 3.30pm on Sunday.

Also opening in Bangkok cinemas:

• Captivity - The latest in sick, don't-go-in-there torture flicks, Captivity was apparently controversial when it was released in the US, for its lurid promotional images - images that I'm sure were geared to be controversial in order to generate publicity - fuss that is probably not worth making over a film like this. Hard to believe it is directed by Roland Joffe, who made The Killing Fields.
• Skinwalkers - Another horror film, released the day after Halloween, for no apparent reason. This is a Canadian werewolf picture that I doubt I'll find the time to see. I actually like werewolf movies, and I'd probably rather watch An American Werewolf in London, or perhaps try to catch The Howling somewhere on television someday, or maybe rent Ginger Snaps.