03Test Shoot · Bangkok 2025
One week. Two people.
140Auditions
14Actors tested
7K€Self-funded
Nathan 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 is so great that a woman would rather carry a dead woman's child than go home empty.
Women from Germany fly to Asia for the children their own country denies them. This is a film about what they find there.
Shot in Bangkok. Latex, prosthetics, blood. No CGI. No AI.
I didn't come up with Ghost Birth. It happened to me.
In 2023 I spent a month on the floor of a massage studio in Bangkok, almost every day. After thirty sessions, Ing asked me if I knew the history of the building. I didn't. She told me: thirty years ago, a pregnant woman burned alive inside this house. The locals avoid the place. That is why there are no Thai customers.
I had been lying inside a ghost house for a month without knowing.
The first version of this film was about a man who runs from fatherhood. That man was me. The film 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.
No CGI. No AI. Latex, light, sweat. Built by hand, on set.
Marius Jopen.
First feature: Space Birth. No budget. 300 volunteers. A spaceship made of cardboard. A film so unclassifiable that Foundation Cinema Oasis Bangkok invented a prize to honour it — Most Shocking Stoner Movie.
The residency that followed is where Ghost Birth 2 began.
This is his second feature. Bigger, darker, built with the same rule: by hand, or not at all.
Most Shocking Stoner Movie Prize · Foundation Cinema Oasis, Bangkok
Plate 01 · archivalMarius Jopen's first feature — a no-budget science fiction film built with 300 volunteers and a cardboard spaceship — screened at Foundation Cinema Oasis in 2022. The foundation's festival invented a category to award it.
The conversation that began there is where Ghost Birth 2 took root. The foundation — run by filmmakers Ing Kanjanavanit and Manit Sriwanichpoom — remains a key creative partner in Bangkok.
Body horror. Bangkok. 100,000–150,000 EUR. In development. Seeking co-production partners.
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