Sarnt Utamachote is a Southeast Asian nonbinary filmmaker and curator based in Berlin. Their works spans research in migration, communities, archives, and notions of queerness, shifting between the mediums of cinema, visual arts, and writing. They are part of collectives such as un.thai.tled and Cruising Curators. Their ongoing exhibition In Nobody’s Service took place at Galerie Wedding Berlin (2024), the Thailand Biennale in Phuket (2025), and Goethe-Institut Southeast Asia’s Dealing In Distance (2026). They co-curated Young Birds From Strange Mountains (2025) at Schwules Museum, an exhibition on queer archives and histories from Southeast Asia, both within and beyond an LGBT-lens, including spirituality and mediumship. Their short film I don’t want to be just a memory (2022–24) had its premiere at the 74th Berlinale Forum Expanded. With Sinema Transtopia, they have been curating film programs, such as The past is not another country (in collaboration with the German Film Museum Frankfurt), which looks at alternative ways to engage with film archives. They work as a film programmer for XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin and the Short Film Festival Hamburg, and have been invited to curate programs at, for example, CinemAsia Amsterdam and the Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage 2026. They have served as a jury member for Fantouche, MIXCPH, the London Short Film Festival, and more. Currently, they are a resident fellow at the Braunschweig Projects of HBK (2026-27).