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Srey Neang is a service worker struggling to care for her 7-year-old daughter, Srey Roth, often returning home late at night. One evening, she collapses and dies inside their home, unnoticed by her daughter. Believing her mother is only sick, Srey Roth sleeps beside her for three days. Srey Neang’s spirit remains behind, protecting her child and haunting those whose cruelty tore them apart, refusing to leave her daughter alone.
A story about bravery, self-sacrifice and human dignity put on trial by the merciless power of nature. A young pilot is fired from military air force after disobeying an absurd order. He gets a job as a co-pilot with a civil airline. Being brutally honest and direct, he is not on best terms with his new colleagues. During a flight to Asia his crew receives a distress message from a volcanic island and makes a decision to attempt a rescue mission. Will it be a success? Will they survive the disaster? They have a single chance to find that out: by being a team and sticking up for one another.
The amazing true story of Billy Moore, an English boxer incarcerated in Thailand’s most notorious prison. Thrown into a world of drugs and violence, he finds his best chance to escape is to fight his way out in prison Muay Thai tournaments.
What started as a simple escort mission will soon turn to chaos as the prisoners of Koh Kla take over the prison grounds. A special task force gets trapped in the prison will have to fight their way out for survival, to protect a key witness.
Seventeen-year-old Sota from the vibrant Phnom Penh, is sent to a quiet rural town to finish high school. Struggling to fit in, she feels adrift, until she meets Viphu, a kind-hearted boy whose determination to uplift his community sparks a bond neither expected. Together they discover friendship and love. But as graduation nears, ambition and circumstance begin to pull them apart. Misunderstandings deepen, silence grows, and their paths diverge. Yet even as distance separates them, a question lingers: is their story truly over, or only waiting to begin again?
An innocent man sentenced to rot in a Cambodian jail is released for the sadistic pleasure of twisted trophy hunters and forced to fight - or die.
Sorn, an ethnic Shan sex worker, tries to build a future in Chiang Mai, Thailand, as a refugee far from home, but he is drawn into a complex relationship with one client, an investigator probing a political activist.
A troubled medium joins a crew of ghost-hunting con artists, but when the isolated jungle they investigate begins claiming victims through face-erasing murders, she must reveal her genuine gift or become the ancient entity’s next target.
Following her mother’s death, manga artist Soriya travels to her ancestral home in Phnom Penh, with hopes of reconnecting with her distant family and using the visit as inspiration for her work. All goes well initially. Renting an apartment in Metta, a rundown Khmer Rouge-era housing complex, her visit to her maternal relatives finds her welcomed with open arms. But Soriya’s waking hours in the apartment and its surroundings are punctuated by terrifying, bloody visions, almost as though she were a conduit for horrors of the past wanting to seep into the present.
A young snake girl is kidnapped by raiders in the jungle. The local Gang Boss wants to torture her but his jailer will help her to escape.
The Indigenous Bunong practice agriculture by hand and end up in conflict with Cambodia's lucrative trade in CO2 certificates, losing the forest of whose ownership they have no conception. Now and then, split screen. A visual firework display.
Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) - 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime's leader, Pol Pot. The country seems ideal. But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country. The regime is looking for culprits, secretly carrying out a large scale genocide. Under the eyes of the journalists, the beautiful picture cracks, revealing the horror. Their journey progressively turns into a nightmare.
A young man working undercover for his police officer uncle infiltrates an online gambling ring, only to discover that danger and betrayal are closer than he imagined.
A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their daughter during World War II, returns and falls for the now-grown princess, though neither realizes the other's identity.
Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.
A secret from the past combined with the drudgery of everyday life in the company of sweating machos and patronising managers may turn out to be an explosive mixture worthy of Park Chan-wook’s cinema of vengeance and passion. But the film was made by young debutante Élodie Yung, who invites us for a ‘full body massage’ to a parlour where a young Cambodian immigrant is trying to earn money for a better life for herself and her family. Obviously, it is not her dream job and the clients can be excessively fussy. How long can you accept their demands, peevishness, quips, comments and ‘inappropriate’ requests? In this inciteful satire, drama is intertwined with poignancy and revenge has a spicy flavour.
Ran Keo tracks down his brother's (Vichet) murder to avenge his death by assassinating every member of the crime syndicate responsible.
After moving into an abandoned orphanage, the inhabitants realize that the building is cursed by a vengeful spirit, known as Reatrei. Tragedies start to befall one after another until they find what her curse entails.
A psychiatrist struggles to defeat superstition and old beliefs when a disgraced traditional healer threatens to tear his world apart.
Sequel to the hit horror movie.
After selling herself at fourteen to a brothel inside her home town of Svay Pak, Mien takes an undesired path all over Cambodia for the remainder of her teenage life. At twenty, her path crosses with a group of people fighting to make a difference, bringing her long and onerous journey back to face where it all began. The Pink Room is an intertwined story of the heart-rending, epic battle to end sex slavery, from rescue to prevention, and experiencing first hand, the need to change not just individuals, but the communities they come from. Most documentaries on trafficking only bring awareness to the problem. This film bring awareness to the solutions.
Samnang, 20, faces the demolition of his lifelong home in Phnom Penh and the pressures from family, friends, and neighbors which arise and intersect in this moment of sudden change.
In this Buddhist sci-fi mystery, a teenage orphan in the slums of Phnom Penh, Cambodia investigates her friend’s past-life visions, uncovering a conspiracy of scientific reincarnation.
The woman, together with her spouse and children, embarked on a visit to an island that was run by a private corporation owned by her foreign acquaintance. However, the island proved to be unusually intimidating, prompting her to make arrangements to depart with her family. Regrettably, the escape was not possible as the island was overrun by zombies, eventually resulting in the transformation of her spouse and children into zombies. Only she and her infant remained unaffected, but the child eventually succumbed to the same fate, leaving her alone. In a selfless act, she chose to transform herself into a zombie to be with her family. However, she later reconsidered and opted to become a saviour instead, with an aim to rescue her family and other victims of the zombie pandemic.
In the heart of Cambodia, Mlis, a young woman from a struggling family, dreams of becoming a doctor to help those in need. Despite economic hardships, she excels academically and earns a spot in a prestigious medical exchange program in Singapore, where she forms a deep bond with fellow student Lucas. On the verge of achieving her dream, Mlis's life is tragically cut short by a hit-and-run driver. Her spirit, torn between vengeance and compassion, lingers at the site of her death. Guided by the prayers and rituals of her grieving mother and the counsel of a monk, Mlis must choose between seeking revenge on her killer or continuing to help others in need. "The Unseen Doctor" is a poignant tale of love, loss, and the enduring power of compassion, exploring the ultimate triumph of the human spirit over adversity.
In 9th century Khmer Empire, a cursed yet remarkable child is born with serpentine locks. She holds humanity's last hope, possessing the power of an ancient prophecy to end an eternal war with divine beings. Embarking on a perilous journey, she discovers mythical realms, develops her extraordinary abilities, and unravels the mysteries of her lineage. With the world's fate hanging in the balance, she fights to restore harmony to a realm on the brink of destructio
The plight of small-scale farmers in Africa and Asia forced off their land by an unprecedented corporate land grab. If they refuse they are subject to horrific violence, which has led to women miscarrying and deaths. Exploring the personal stories of those affected, this documentary gives a voice to threatened subsistence farmers throughout the developing world. If your livelihood was ripped away from you, how would you cope?
Soul River was part of the Mekong 2030 anthology, which presents five short films from five Southeast Asian directors, including Kulikar Sotho to represent Cambodia and Hanuman Films. Shooting took place in the Ramsar Wetlands and Stung Treng on the Mekong River as well as on the Tonle Sap Lake near Siem Reap.
"Neang Neath" is 2004 Success Cambodian horror film based on the Legendary Khmer folktale that occurred in Battambang province in the late 1800s. The story was told throughout the country in the 1900s. It was never a film in the 20th century nor was it a film during the Khmer golden age of the 1960s,infact, most films of those times were based more on religion.
In late 2021, a deadly fire consumed an underground club, taking the life of Mr. Chhoeun Samnang. But his death was no accident. Something was waiting in the darkness-something unseen, something obsessed. A vengeful spirit, bound to the club, claimed him as its own, igniting a nightmare that would haunt his family long after the flames died out. Then came the demand: a wedding. A ritual binding Samnang's soul to the ghost that took him. And if his family refused, the real horror would begin. One by one, the shadows crept closer, bringing terror, tragedy, and a chilling truth-the dead do not take rejection lightly.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia. On Diamond Island, the country's pinnacle of modernity, two friends tell each other about the dreams they had the night before.
Skate Dreams, the first feature documentary about the rise of women’s skateboarding, profiles a group of women whose pursuit of self-expression, equality, and freedom have created an international movement on and off their skateboards. From their boycott of the X-Games, to their defiance of traditional skateboarding gatekeepers, through grueling worldwide skate competitions in the run up to the Olympics, Skate Dreams showcases the charismatic personalities, indomitable spirits and amazing talent of these trailblazing pioneers.
Mony is a loser who hangs out on the streets of Phnom Penh, until the day he witnesses a murder, forcing him to seek refuge with his older brother, a transgender performer in a drag queen club. Now on the run with his brother's friends and performers, dressed as a dancer and calling himself Poppy, Mony must hide at Hollywood, a night club in the Cambodian countryside. With the mob and the police after him, Mony has to adapt to his new identity...
Khmer horror film.
Five young brothers drive the streets of Phnom Penh each night in search of venues to perform their break-dancing routine to earn something to support their family.
Years ago, a helicopter crashed under mysterious circumstances high in the mountains. Climbing the slopes to investigate the accident, a journalist and a soldier encounter a shaman deep in the forest who tells them about ancient rain rituals.
Sleepless from the heat, Sokun leaves his crowded construction dormitory and joins a community of fellow workers living in one of many unfinished high-rises. One such tower becomes the long-awaited luxury home for its first tenant, Seda, who soon feels trapped in the vast gated complex.
After a century of genocidal ideologies and destructive speciesism, animals have enslaved humans and taken over the world. In a wave of hope, the statues of the past have been removed but new ones are being erected to suppress the will of the people. This is now a planet of apes, boars and lions, and a zoological revolution is reversing and recreating the atrocities of the 20th century.
A young man makes a living by selling drugs in a back alley in Paris. His mother visits him as a ghost.
Childhood love is not far away, looking up and down, just friends...
After the death of her father, theater actress Nisay returns to her hometown and reconnects with her former lover, Thida. On stage, their love finds its fullest expression but in life, they must navigate bittersweet goodbyes
An Australian woman fights to save her orphanage in Cambodia against the country's ever-changing political backdrop.
Thida, the spirit guardian of an old cinema facing demolition, must confront her existence as a ghost and the choice of rebirth. When she meets Hai, a living human with whom she forms a deep bond, their connection forces her to face not only her spiritual destiny but also the realities of a country undergoing profound economic and social change.
After multiple workers died at a Chinese construction site in Preah Sihanouk, the construction manager asked the Chinese owner to seek help from a Chinese feng shui master to prevent further mishaps. During his investigation, the master uncovered a troubling truth involving a vengeful pregnant female spirit. The spirit was angry about the construction on the site, which she considered her domain. As a result, the feng shui master had to navigate through a series of challenges to uncover the problem and find a way to appease her.
A legendary master of dark magic who possesses invincible skin, an powerful art that renders the body uncuttable and immune to fire. He lives in isolation atop Mount Kulen, where eight male disciples come to study this sacred and dangerous knowledge. But the path to power comes at a heavy cost. In the end, only two disciples remain to carry on the master’s legacy. The bond between the two survivors shatters. Consumed by rivalry and desire, especially over the master’s beautiful daughter, they turn against each other in a fierce and relentless conflict.
A nurse helps Vicheka make sense of his dreams after he returns to a transformed Sihanoukville to memorialise his father in this restrained film about the human cost of Chinese investment in Cambodia.
Six students are invited to play a game at night in a school. They have to perform tasks in order to receive cheats for their Final exam. The tasks are easy, but soon the stakes rise, the danger escalates and the game turns deadly.
In war-torn Cambodia, young Prach's life is forever changed by the Cambodian Genocide and the Vietnam War. Amid the devastation, he finds solace in martial arts. When the deadly Khmer Rouge rises, he's thrust into Thailand, using his martial prowess to fight for survival. Later in the U.S., Prach channels his traumatic past into a mission against crimes against humanity. With support from the U.S. and Cambodia, Prach's journey from victim to advocate showcases the resilience of the human spirit and the power of hope.
A young woman working late at night at a beauty salon gives into her restrained interest in a young man who spends his evenings driving Phnom Penh's streets by motorbike as a delivery man.
In a bygone era in Cambodia, a small family resided. Nuon carried her pregnancy for several months with concerns that her baby may not survive. During her husband's absence, the villagers accused her of being the Dark Mother. Despite Nuon's efforts to protect her child, the local children feared her and refused to stay with her. The subsequent separation from her family left Nuon devastated. She recognized that a mother, whether human or ghost, must be present to care for her children.
Phirun is 19 years old and lives in Phnom Penh. One day he is accused of theft and involuntarily injures his employer. Phirun escapes and during his flight, he meets Sovanna; a powerful bond grows between the two of them, and develops into love. Amiel Courtin-Wilson is Australian, and made his debut at the Sundance Film Festival in 2000 with Chasing Buddha; since then he has made many films, screened at the major film festivals. In 2011 he directed Hail, presented at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in the Orizzonti section. Michael Cody, producer, director and screenwriter, has often collaborated with Courtin-Wilson and now they are back together with Ruin.
Lida, a careerdriven woman in her late 20s in the developing metropolis of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, sells modern and upscale real estate developments to the growing middle and upper class in contemporary Cambodia. Lida may be thriving as a top real estate agent, but in her personal life , her relationship with her photographer boyfriend is deteriorating. Unable to escape the trauma and prison of her interior monologue, she travels to the quiet beach town of Kep, Cambodia, with her close companions. While the growth and modernization of the city promote an urban and cultural erasure, Kep reveals treasures from Cambodia’s heritage. It is there that Lida discovers that the specters from the past haunt in sublime and beautiful ways.
Songsa is 15 years old when his family decides to send him to Phnom Penh to sell clothes in a tuk tuk. Phearum borrowed money to buy a taxi in order to support his family. Thy, 20, has a dream: buying a big motorbike. When their paths cross, a new road merges.
Phnom Penh at night. Three young hip-hop dancers drive a single motorbike and stop on a muddy deserted road. Nick leaves the others to look for an iPhone he heard was lost in the area. Piseth and Thy discuss their hopes and doubts, and Piseth shows his best Michael Jackson moves. They meet Leakhena, a young female street vendor whose cart is full of colors.
Short-documentary about a visionary actor and his team fight to revive Lakhon Niyeay (Spoken Theater) in Cambodia, facing personal and professional challenges, as he prepares for a major show after six years amidst an uncertain future.
A young artist who conserves ancient Khmer sculptures in modern-day Phnom Penh journeys to Tokyo with her own works.
Thida goes to the theatre to see a play with her friend. Later, when rehearsing her own lines, the boundaries between what’s in the script and what she actually wants to convey become ambiguous, even for herself. Will performing allow her to open up, or will she remain trapped inside her role?
15-year-old Soma escapes her controlling mother and finds herself at a train station, where she encounters a compassionate stranger. As they connect, both face their struggles and find unexpected solace.
When a lonely widower realizes his grown children have phased him out of their lives, he stages an elaborate deception to lure them back to their childhood home, forcing a confrontation with the family's fractured past.