Bangkok – The Ministry of Culture has prevented a controversial film which discusses the notorious “Tak Bai Incident” from being shown at this year’s World Film Festival,  scheduled for November 6-15 at Bangkok’s Siam Paragon.

“This Area Under Quarantine” is a strange mix of soft core gay porn and political message, in which two gays, one Buddhist and one Muslim, engage in sex and discuss the suffocation of 85 men in the back of army trucks in 2004, during a military crackdown on southern insurgents in the southern border province of Naratiwas, while underground video is shown of the harsh treatment of the detainees.

It has been suggested that the sexual content of the film gave the authorities the chance to suppress a film which made them feel uncomfortable about a very controversial event.