• Director(s)

    Jez Lewis

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    03/06/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    86m

  • Cast

    Sangduen 'Lek' Chailert, Chockchai Srisirivilai, Darrick Thomson

Film

Elephant Mother

upsetting scenes

Featuring occasional footage of animal cruelty and brief images of a fatal animal attack, this inspiring documentary follows a Thai conservationist as she takes on the powerful tourist industry to rescue abused elephants.…

Featuring occasional footage of animal cruelty and brief images of a fatal animal attack, this inspiring documentary follows a Thai conservationist as she takes on the powerful tourist industry to rescue abused elephants.

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threat and horror

language

discrimination

injury detail

disturbing images

theme

violence

sex

  • Director(s)

    Jez Lewis

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    03/06/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    86m

  • Cast

    Sangduen 'Lek' Chailert, Chockchai Srisirivilai, Darrick Thomson

upsetting scenes
Classified Date:
24/04/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Bungalow Town Productions Limited
threat and horror
A conservationist speaks about having been subjected to death threats and harassment due to her opposition to the elephant tourist industry, and says that other elephant rescuers she knows have been injured or killed by snipers. The level of verbal detail is mild, however.
language
There is infrequent use of very mild bad language (e.g. ‘butt’).
discrimination
The film contains infrequent references to sexism within Thai society, but such attitudes are immediately criticised.
injury detail
There are brief, grainy images of a dead or injured person being kicked by an elephant during a fatal attack, without visible blood. We also see brief images of a dark blood stain on an elephant’s head resulting from mistreatment, and of a raw bite wound on another elephant’s tail.
disturbing images
A short sequence of grainy footage shows an elephant knocking a man to the ground and kicking his limp body. There is also occasional use of footage of elephants being hauled around in chains, worked to the point of collapse, or beaten with sticks or sharp metal hooks. However, the focus of the film is on the efforts to rescue and rehabilitate such elephants, and the overall tone is positive and inspiring.
theme
A woman becomes visibly emotional while speaking about the death of her mother.
Classified Date:
21/05/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Bungalow Town Productions Limited

  • Classified date

    24/04/2024

  • Language

    English