Interview with Orlando de Guzman, director of Anak Selatae (Son of the South)

Anak Selatae (Son of the South), formerly titled Between the Verse and the King, follows the journey into manhood of several young Malay-Muslims from southern Thailand. They are being called up for the annual military draft. For the Malay-Muslim recruits, the draft holds a bitter irony: they are being asked to sacrifice their lives for a country that has failed to include them as Muslims and ethnic Malays in its vision of a monolithic Buddhist Thai culture.