03Test Shoot · Bangkok 2025
One week. Two people.
140Auditions
14Actors tested
7K€Self-funded
N. CeddiaCinematographer
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Not the version you see on social media. The other version. The desperation. The pressure. The willingness to accept anything to become a mother.
The pressure to become a mother is so great that a woman would rather carry a dead woman's child than go home empty.
Shot in Bangkok. Latex, prosthetics, blood. No CGI. No AI.
I didn't come up with Ghost Birth. It happened to me.
In 2023, my first film screened at Foundation Cinema Oasis in Bangkok. I went to a massage studio nearby almost every day. After thirty sessions, Ing asked me if I knew the history of the building. I didn't. She told me that thirty years ago, a pregnant woman had burned alive inside the house. The locals avoid the place. That is why there are no Thai customers.
I had been lying on that floor for a month. Inside a ghost story I didn't know I was part of.
The first version of this film was about a man who runs from fatherhood. That man was me. The film has changed. It is no longer about a man who runs. It is about a woman who stays. Elena knows what is growing inside her. She knows the child belongs to a ghost. She knows the house is a machine. And she chooses to keep it.
All effects will be practical. Built by hand, on set, with latex and light and sweat.
Berlin-based filmmaker. His first feature Space Birth — a no-budget science fiction film built with 300 volunteers and a spaceship made of cardboard — won the Most Shocking Stoner Movie Prize at Foundation Cinema Oasis Bangkok. The residency there is where Ghostbirth 2 began.
Ghostbirth 2 is his second feature.
Body horror. Bangkok. 100,000–150,000 EUR. In development. Seeking co-production partners.