影片以柬埔寨红色高棉政权时期的逼供行为记录文件为题材，再现了一个少女Hout Bophana和一名高棉干部Ly Sitha之间的关系故事。两人初次认识时正值金边沦陷。Sitha对龙诺政权的腐败感到厌恶，于是加入到红色高棉抵抗运动，两人由此分离。当金边的居民被迫离开之后，两人重新聚首，结果却遭遇种族灭绝大清洗计划，两人被捕其后送往S21监狱，在那里他们遭受严刑拷打和刑讯逼供，之后在1976年被处决。
Cambodia is a nation split between a bright future and a black past, still tending the savage wounds wrought upon its people by the Khmer Rouge and the USA bombers whilst also cultivating a determined and optimistic new generation. This deep and incisive portrait of a vibrant, bustling country moves beyond the verdant hills, ancient wonders and modern metropolises to reveal a p...
Featuring brutally candid testimony, The Storm Makers is a chilling exposé of Cambodia's human trafficking underworld and an eye-opening look at the complex cycle of poverty, despair and greed that fuels this brutal modern slave trade. More than half a million Cambodians work abroad and a staggering third of these have been sold as slaves. Most are young women, held prisoner an...
A young man makes a living by selling drugs in a back alley in Bordeaux. His mother visits him as a ghost. The world and time have changed, yet the connection between them is eternal.
In the year of 1940, the song Gloomy Sunday was known as the ******* song as many *******s recorded were related to it. Listening to this song has led to a French lady committing ******* as well after the death of her boyfriend, a clock engineer at that time. Her soul was not at peace and it returned with the purpose of fulfilling the desires of other victims of depression. Che...
There are not many kings, that moonlight as film directors. King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia is just such a rare bird. He made more than a dozen feature films and over thirty documentaries. Some of the newer ones are even available on DVD, but the productions from the 1950s and 1960s, when Cambodia was considered to be the "Switzerland of Asia" (and before the Khmer Rouge syst...
A compilation of short films exploring first love, revenge, new beginnings and more are unwrapped in the first of this exciting series of compilations, programmed by the New Queer Visions Film Festival strand.
As Singapore dredges sand out from beneath Cambodia’s mangrove forests, an ecosystem, a communal way of life, and one woman’s relationship to her beloved home are faced with the threat of erasure. For over a decade, the government of Cambodia has granted several private companies concessions to mine these mangrove forests for sand. Each year, millions of metric tons of sand are...
