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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.
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.
A look at love from another angle. A love that takes a twisted edgy turn. Is this love?
On a lonely night, Tuk Tuk driver Nath meets a woman who reminds him of his past. Returning home, he confesses to his wife that he wants to move. This realization ultimately reveals the unspoken realities of their marriage dating from the Khmer Rouge period.
Vibol and his brother Kea sell noodles on a motorized cart every night on the streets of Phnom Penh. They often face troublesome threats from gangsters and thieves, even if these very people are their only customers. As the city is growing around them, they consider their unstable income and imagine a different future.
Two friends find themselves at a crossroads, torn between the familiar constraints of home and the uncertainty of carving out their own paths.
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...
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.
On a Cambodian fishing island, Mera is turning 18. She rejects a marriage arranged by her aunt and instead organizes a trip with her close friend Bopha to a remote rocky island to visit a soldier who she met online. Weeks later, Mera vanishes. Bopha’s search begins. As the weeks pass without resolution, Bopha starts to understand the inner secrets and hidden desires of her missing friend, and her own.
Samuth is the only child in a family who depends on fishing in Kampot province. One day, he bumps into a young man named Veatu, who later becomes his reliable friend with whom he can share his thoughts. As the two spend time together, just like the waves hit the surface of the sea, an unexpected romance blossoms between them. What will happen when a huge wave comes? Will it wash their relationship away, or will their bond get stronger?
Paulina, a 17 year old girl living in the Cambodian gambling community, struggles with her father and the realities of addiction.
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?
Roza, 32, comes back in time from 2030 to 2020 to change what happened - she wants to stop her younger self from meeting Kai to change the consequences.
In Phnom Penh, Visoth encounters Linea, an artist sketching the Mekong River. Their day is filled with laughter and a genuine connection, as they wish to pause time together. But as night falls, reality pulls them apart, leaving Visoth grappling with the ache of what could have been. A raw exploration of young love, fleeting moments, and the bittersweet passage of time.
Childhood love is not far away, looking up and down, just friends...
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.
A telefilm that describes the meeting between Cambodian restaurateur Bopha ("flower"), a survivor of the genocide of the Khmer Rouge, and a Vietnamese man named Mihn, a "boat people" refugee who drives a taxi at night and works as a deliveryman during the day for his uncle's grocery store.
A provincial student moves to Phnom Penh for university and spends beyond his means to fit in with wealthier classmates. When his money runs out, his priorities 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.
Doeun returned to his past life and the time when his first love, Noun, was still with him. However, in this journey back, his memory of Noun is limited to knowing she is a ghost and not his lover in the sense of a husband and wife relationship. Despite this, he feels a strong connection and begins to question whether the Noun he encounters now is a human or a ghost. He remembers that the Noun he knew as a ghost had already married and given birth to her fourth child. Yet, the Noun he meets in this timeline has not reached that point in her life. Will he be able to change her fate?
Prankster activists perform an elaborate hoax to improve conditions for garment workers in the Adidas supply chain. Staging a shocking runway show at Berlin Fashion Week, they use humor and mischief to make the world pay attention to labor and environmental abuses that the massive sportswear brand is trying to hide.
One suffers in silence, another masks her pain. In the midst of misery, an unexpected bond is formed. Can another's agony distract them from their own?
Khmer horror movie.
Khmer horror film.
Wandering in the streets of Sihanoukville, at night.
A man visits the countryside from the city and realizes that the girl he had just met happens to be his cousin who lives in the countryside and is his soon to be fiance. Since the two dislike like each other, they both come up with a plan in order to avoid the arranged marriage by their parents.
Twelve sisters who escaped at the start of their human-eating mother, are marry at the same time the king. But the ogress craves revenge and deceives the king as an attractive woman. The ogress ensures that the twelve sisters lose their eyesight and are imprisoned in a cave. Where they eat their own children to survive. Only the little Puthisen, the son of the youngest sister, is spared. Puthisen grows then into the cave from child to young man. As a young adult he decides to liberate his mother and the eleven aunts.
Based on the novel ‘Wilted Flower’ by Nou Hach, the film unfolds a gripping tale of grief and desperate hope. When Noun, the mother, breaks off her daughter's engagement to a struggling suitor in favor of a wealthier match, tragedy ensues. As her daughter's heartbreak consumes her, illness tightens its grip, pushing Noun to turn to ancient rituals for salvation.
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.
After his friend uses all the money to move to Los Angeles, a public school teacher has no choice: he has to ask everyone he knows to lend him money. Despite multiple challenges, he and his family learn that all problems can be overcome through love and positivity.
A vengeful ghost woman intends to kill her husband.
In Ratanakiri, a province in the northeast of Cambodia, Khlek, an 11-year-old boy, lives on the rubber plantation where his parents work. Coming from the Kreung ethnic minority, they are tappers.
Cambodian horror film.
An old woman walks through Hemakcheat, a legendary theatre in 60's-70's Phnom Penh, which is now a gigantic squat where many families are living.
On the Cambodian island of Koh Sdach, a local diver examines coral reefs and seahorse populations while exploring the environmental impacts of his village's commercial development and growing fishing industry.
Chao Chet's unwavering loyalty and courage won the hearts of Khun Neary and gained the trust of Mr. Luong Ratanasambath, the gem's owner in Bor Pailin. This serves as a reminder that with dedication and bravery, we can achieve great things and win over even the toughest of challenges. The animated adaptation of the romantic novel "Kolab Pailin" is an inspiring portrayal of Chao Chet's unwavering loyalty and perseverance in the face of adversity after the loss of his father.
Neay Kroeun got a nicknamed full-face sex security guard, is guarded in a resort full of mysteries. The first night he was on guard, Neay Kroeun met the children who were the children of the resort owner. Those children told to Neay Kroeurn that their grandmother had just died in seven days ago and her spirit is still here. Every night we never slept well, only to hear my grandmother screaming for us. Every night we never sleep well, always hear grandmother screaming for us. Sometimes we seem to see her shadow come to sleep with us. That's so scary. Did you afraid for coming? Neay Kroeun said that he was not afraid because he was a security guard with brand name he will work on it if it can earn more money, but in the end, everything was not as easy as Neay Kroeun thought.
The plot revolves around a young Buddhist monk named Tum who falls in love with a lovely girl named Teav. After returning to his native province, King Reamea invites Tum to sing at the royal palace. Teav's mother decides to marry her daughter to the son of Archun, the province's governor. However, Reamea urges that she marry the Cambodian monarch instead. Teav is brought to the palace, and Tom performs a song about his love for her. Reamea agrees to let the pair marry, but Archun murders Tum and Teav. Reamea instructs Archun's entire family to be buried.
Young people tell the strange story of a french family's holidays in Cambodia.
Boreak was six when he lost his right arm in a landmine accident in Cambodia. His parents sent him to a home in Siem Reap for young landmine victims. The home is run by Aki Ra, a former Khmer Rouge soldier who is haunted by his violent past and hopes to make amends by helping remove the millions of landmines still buried in his country. Aki Ra’s Boys, the second feature documentary by filmmakers James Leong and Lynn Lee, premiered at the Singapore International Film Festival in 2007. It screened at the Yamagata Internation
Khmer horror film.
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.
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.
An expat in Cambodia accidentally causes a pregnant woman's death, leading her husband to curse him and his family. Years later, the curse afflicts his daughter-in-law who must undergo a ritual to give life to the unborn child.
Two dubbing actors work on a sensitive scene of a film. Little by little, fiction and reality seem to mingle.
A devoted wife dies waiting for her husband's return but her love refuses to fade, turning into a haunting obsession that he cannot escape.
After moving to the countryside to live in a new house built on stilts, Borey's family starts experiencing strange, unimaginable events. Their eldest daughter, Kaew, becomes possessed by a spirit that terrorizes the village. The villagers search for the cause, eventually discovering that the spirit is within Kaew. Ta San, a local spiritual healer, uses various religious methods to free and help Kaew.
A group of content creators believe that shooting videos about folk taboos and superstitions can bring considerable profits on social media. For their latest project, they ventured deep into a mysterious forest, carried out various rituals themselves and videotaped the whole process. At first, they scoffed at the supernatural, but as strange events occurred one after another, this adventure gradually turned into an irreversible disaster. In the end, only three people managed to escape alive, and they chose to abandon all the filming equipment, leaving the recorded terrifying footage in the forest forever and daring not let these images see the light of day again.
Produced by the Luang Prabang Film Festival, "MEKONG 2030" is a collection of short narrative films that envision the future of the Mekong River from five different national and cultural perspectives. Set in the year 2030, they aim to both entertain and inspire audiences to actively protect this critical life source.
A young vlogger (Vithor), obsessed with gaining fame by exploiting supernatural beliefs, must confront a fierce Board Demon he awakened. He is forced to embrace his father's ancient spiritual legacy before he becomes the demon's next vessel.
Under the heavy shadow of Cambodia’s past, two young women’s unbreakable bond is tested when one disappears into a world of exploitation, forcing the other to confront the depths of loyalty and the price of redemption.
Shot in Cambodia and borrowing a title and a punk sensibility from Qiu Miaojin’s classic queer novel, Daphne Xu’s Notes of a Crocodile follows an unnamed woman who roams the streets of a Phnom Penh in flux, encountering humans and animals in her search for a lost friend.
Khmer horror film.
A Fistful of Pebbles won the 3rd prize in the SEA Tropfest Film Festival 2015. The story is about a mysterious man who finds himself in the muddy monsoon in a village terrorized by a local gangster. When he’s unwittingly drawn into the village’s problem and the beautiful daughter of the village Chief is about to be taken, the hero takes matters into his own hands… with a fistful of pebbles.
The film, shot at the end of 1991 at the time of Norodom Sihanouk's return to Cambodia, questions the Cambodian people and explores the horrors and effects of the Khmer Rouge on them and what future they may look forward to
Neath owes a lot of money to her village. Dao has fallen in love with her and helped her pay off her debt, but Neath still does not love him back. Because Dao is a womanizer. Dao tries many ways to make her fall in love with him.
The film directed by V. Starošas tells about Angkor, a huge complex of temples, palaces, water reservoirs and canals in Cambodia, built in the jungle in the 9th-13th centuries.
