EXCLUSIVE: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s Thai Oscar submission A Useful Ghost is among a full complement of this year’s Cannes Critics’ Week competition selections that will screen at the 23rd Morelia International Film Festival in Mexico (FICM, October 10-19).

The sidebar grand prize winner about a dead woman who returns as a vacuum cleaner stars Davika Hoorne from local box-­office hit Pee Mak and is sold by Best Friend Forever.

A Useful Ghost is part of a seven-strong roster from the 64th Critics’ Week and marks the latest Cannes delegation under a partnership that has existed since FICM launched in 2003. Four Mexican shorts screened out of competition on the Croisette as part of the exchange programme.

The Critics’ Week selections that premiered in Cannes this year include Alex

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