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Mek, Sooraya the Snake Haired Girl’s son, falls into a love triangle against his step brother Sok to win the heart of Chan, the daughter of a wealthy businessman. When he loses Chan to Sok, Mek transforms into a snake and impregnates Chan but Sok finds out and eventually fatally stabs Chan. Out of her womb burst hundreds of baby snakes that Mek, after killing Sok, raises as his babies thanks to a magic ring that transforms back into a human.
In a small village, Nhi comes across a Snake Immortal and falls in love with him. She becomes pregnant by the snake, but does not tell her husband. When he discovers the truth, he kills both Nhi and the Snake Immortal. One of the small snakes escapes from Nhi's abdomen, and is brought up by another immortal. Slowly the snake grows up to be a beautiful woman, who sets out to develop another relationship.
Nari and Sok make a promise to marry very soon, but prince Thamavong abducts the young woman to be his wife. While Sok tries to take back his beloved, the first wife of polygamous prince makes a very sad plan.
Based upon documentation of forced confessions made during the Khmer Rouge era in Cambodia, this film reconstructs the relationship of a young woman, Hout Bophana, and Ly Sitha before they were tortured in executed in 1977.
Through daily routines in a rural village, an indigenous elder couple recall their strange marriage to their grand-daughter, and sometimes to each other, in the changing rhythm of nature around them.
On an island in the Indian Ocean, the Comoros archipelago, unoccupied houses await the arrival of their owners. These places without souls and half built abound across the landscape. The myth of eternal return is repeated in the Comorian diaspora.
General Mchulpich plots a coup with the CIA and South Vietnam to secede two provinces from Cambodia.
Big Madam poisons her husband and throws her adopted sister into a snake pit where she has sex with the snakes and gives birth to the beautiful Snake Girl. When her son falls in love with Snake Girl, Big Madam tries to kill her.
Based on the Southeast Asian mythology of the "Krasue." The "Krasue" is the floating head of a vampiric female ghost which has internal organs that hang from the ghost's neck.
In 1940, a French lady commits suicide after the death of her boyfriend, a clock engineer. Her soul was not at peace and it became a spirit, carried by a beautiful but deadly timepiece, that would torment the sufferers of depression for generations. Cheata is a young girl, living with her father after her mother, Chanda, left the family. Every day, Cheata suffers abuse from her stepmother, slipping deeper into the depression that grips her home. Her pain is soon too much to bear, and she falls under the control of the spirit of the French lady who possesses 'The Clock'.
A poor, rural Cambodian family slowly disintegrates during the cycle of a single rice crop.
In the 18th century, a young prince is crowned king of a small kingdom. He tries to rule justly, but is undermined by his cruel aunt.
This documentary looks at the stories that take place around a unique 1.5 kilometre long bamboo bridge that for generations has been built every year following the rhythms of nature across the Mekong River to join the rural community of Koh Paen to the city of Kampong Cham in Cambodia.
An ailing Khmer prince falls in love with Maharani Maya of India, his guest. The government of Cambodia sent him a trained nurse named Sopheap, who served him with devotion. But the prince was totally unaware of the rumblings in her heart.
A lost film, buried beneath Cambodia's killing fields, reveals different versions of the truth. A contemporary story about love, family and the ghosts of Cambodia's past.
A young woman relaxes at a riverfront restaurant. She recounts stories of her past experiences, finding enchantment in the flows of the river and the trees on the mountains nearby.
The first ever Cambodian feature film.
Based on a legend in Buddhist mythology, this tells the story of a religious disciple who defies rules and reads from an ancient scripture that turns him into a huge crocodile.
Forty years after the fall of Phnom Penh, Cambodian artists inherit a pluralistic history whose groping threads they unravel. Sera Ing works on the sculpture which will become the first memorial of the genocide but the project encounters difficulties to exist. How do artists reappropriate history and culture from which they have been dispossessed?
Chompa Tong, the daughter of the king , is kidnapped by a shapeshifting crocodile and the young prince called Jak Jan, swims into the water to save her.
Angered by the constant bad luck that has befallen her family, the Snake Girl decides that enough is enough and uses her curse to take revenge on her enemies.
A guru and his follower, who have lived in the ruins of Angkor for 150 years, return to the world to save the Cambodian people.
During the occupation of Cambodia, a Japanese colonel falls in love with a French-Cambodian woman on Bokor Hill. Meanwhile, the people of Cambodia are divided between siding with their former French overlords and the new Japanese invaders.
Two women of different backgrounds encounter one another at an oceanfront resort. They then discover a hidden bond that allows them to escape from their realities.
A young Cambodian doctor returns home from Paris to volunteer at a clinic in his home village, just outside of the capital city Phnom Penh. Most of his patients are victims of land mines. He falls in love with a young nurse at the clinic, while dealing with the advances of his cousin, who is unhappily married to an amputee war veteran.
A Buddhist monk tries to preach non-violence to the Khmum-Chachak rebels and the National Army, who are in the midst of a civil war that can dangerously affect innocent civilians.
Kantha, a classical Khmer ballet dancer, is in love with Phalla, a young air force pilot, but is forced to marry a powerful general.
Sopheap is a psychotic man who can see ghosts trying to kill him. Vichet has to stay close to Sopheap. Every time Sopheap runs into trouble, the two will change their work place to conceal the truth that no one else knows about.
Captain Siporak and Inspector Sam Baun raid the gambling place at Kirirom owned by Prince Chantavong. This place is disguised as an orchid shop. As soon as Prince Chantavong is detained in jail, his wife, princess Sulpra, spends her time having a love relationship with her nephew. Then she meets Okhnia Sneha Sambat, a great hotelier. Okhnia takes her to a big island at Sihanoukville for their holiday. After being released from prison, Prince Chantavong, armed with guns, tries to look for her everywhere.
The King assigns two tutors for the young Crown Prince and intrigues start flourishing at the Royal Court.
A young author with an incurable illness wishes to return to Angkor Wat to spend his final days, but his wife remains in Phnom Penh, sending a young cousin to go instead. While his wife makes plans to remarry, the young man and cousin fall in love.
A dark spirit's vengeance shatters the life of a couple in their new home. The couple must now decide to leave or stay behind to their possible death.
Tum, a novice Buddhist monk, and Teav, the daughter of a wealthy woman, fall madly in love in spite of both their backgrounds.
Penavong, a student of Ta Esei, is sent on a mission to capture the giant when he meets the beautiful Sovann Pancha. When they first meet, they battle. Penavong makes a pact with Sovann Pancha that if she loses in the battle, she is to help him defeat the giant.
Musical with many classic songs
Directed and scripted by the late His Majesty King Sihanouk, filmed in North Korea in 1991. It depicts the Vietnamese annexation of Kampuchea Krom through the eyes of a Khmer Princess and a classical dancer living in the Vietnamese palace.
On Comoros, the women’s national basketball team is training for the Indian Ocean Island Games. In the past, this tournament played between different archipelagos in the Indian Ocean was the scene of political tension: in 2015, the team from the island of Mayotte, which is still French territory, decided to carry a French flag, prompting the athletes from the three independent islands to storm out.
There are few things that do not get lost, no matter how old we are. In the memory of adults there is a childhood and in the beginning of the forest there is a tree and in the history of the walls an old inscription. The women of Asir region, southern Saudi Arabia, created the art of Qatt through abstract engraving and drawing on walls and different objects with bright colours.
An educational short film on the discrimination and dignity of transgender people in Cambodia.
Kavich Neang documents the final days of the White Building in Phnom Penh, an architectural landmark he had lived in since birth.
After an affair with the fabled Snake King, a woman gives birth to a son she names Veasna. After Veasna finds a wife, a witch curses their daughter to be born with snakes instead of hair.
The film is a melodramatic love-triangle between Chea and Sou over a woman named Orn.
A peasant, Chivon, played by Kong Som Eun, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy man, "Preah Peay Phat", Vichara Dany. Chivon does everything he can in order to get his lovers attention but they are forbidden to see each other. When the peasant falls in love with another woman, Preah Peay Phat is heartbroken. That is when the terrible news is revealed, Preah Peay Phat and Chivon are brothers and sisters.
Sovan Kesor, faithful to a promise made in her previous life, never speaks to men; so the king, her father, decides to marry her to a man who is able get her to talk to men.
A hunting party spending a night in a forest are suddenly whisked away into a magical reality.
Phnom Penh is changed after a deadly flu virus spreads through the city, turning its citizens into undead like creature with a taste for flesh. Join a group of survivors who battle to stay alive through this turbulent event while trying to find out why this disaster occurred. Life in the city will never be the same again.
Love triangle
A group of young developers hope to renovate an old house, only to find that it was formerly home to a traditional Thai dancing school, and the spirits of the dancers have yet to leave.
A fictionalised account of the brutal oppression experienced by a family living in a labour camp headed by malicious cadres.
The king of Baghdad sends out for an heir who is invulnerable and has a black mark on his hand, but is overthrown by a minister, whose son is the head of the army. It is up to the young Abul Kasem to save the kingdom.
Cambodia 1975: The capital Phnom Penh is a city under siege. Only the presence of the last remaining US troops is keeping Khmer Rouge guerrilla forces from overrunning the town's fragile defenses. Inside this dark, dystopian setting a stunning nightclub singer engages in a battle of wits and deception with two lovers in a bid to escape the doomed metropolis.
After a series of deadly crocodile attacks, a farmer decides to become a crocodile hunter.
The 'grand marriage' is an age-old institution which has been passed from generation to generation on the islands of Grande Comore, Moheli and Anjouan. It's a symbol of social status on the islands and a must for any self-respecting Comoran, a commitment not even the President of the Republic can avoid embracing.
A documentary showcasing the nation of Cambodia.
A father's heart is as big as the whole world, it is said. A disabled cycle trishaw driver who has lost a leg is lovingly raising his two children alone as their mother ran away. The little money he earns on the dirty streets of the pulsating city is just enough to survive. When the little son fell ill and had to go to the hospital, the desperate father could not afford the money for medical treatment. He now has to take on other jobs, collect rubbish from the street or donate blood. Meanwhile, a young, committed female doctor is taking care of the little boy, whose father, in turn, cannot understand that she is doing this "man's job". Based on a true story!
The Cambodian government of centuries ago must put an end to attempted secession.
Based on the "dove hunters" fairy tale
In 1999 a fibre-glas wire was installed from Thailand to Vietnam straight trough Cambodia. Rithy Panh shows us the work done in Cambodia to connect Khmer-society to "modern world". Farmers, soldiers and children work for a living there and unearthen skulls and bones -their remains from PolPot-regime you can see. The fear in their mind is portrayed by Rithy Panh in this documentary. As the other work done by Rithy Panh this deals with his people. I like it very much! The movie was awarded 1999 at "Visions du Réel" in Nyon (Switzerland) and at "Cinéma du Réel" in Paris.
Romance movie, inspired by the French novel "La Châtelaine du Liban"
Kavich Neang’s first film is a short documentary following Sory Chan, a 14-year-old boy who is living in Phnom Penh apart from his family. A student of Cambodian classical music, Sory lives with his mother’s friend after his mother fled a debt she couldn’t afford to pay back. Each evening after class, he carries a scale outside in a popular part of the city and asks people to weigh themselves for a small amount of money. In this urgent film, we witness Sory’s day in class, his nightly routine and a particularly difficult conversation with his mother who he meets on the street.