Ary used to live in the countryside. Forced by her mother to marry a man she doesn`t love, she runs away to Phnom Penh a few days before the wedding. But once there, she quickly finds herself trapped: sold off several times over, she is forced to dance in bars or is beaten. She becomes an escort girl and earns a good living going out with foreigners.
Because of the war, a woman's husband died, leaving behind three children. Sovanna is worried about losing her mother. She wants to go back and need her father, who died in the war, back.
This Khmer horror movie, which is set in a village in Cambodia, tells the story of a female ghost.
A day in a children’s camp in a rural area during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Five young boys decide to have a ‘party’ with rice they have ‘stolen’ from the camp store, grain by grain day by day. In three months the rice collected is the size of a fist and the boys can’t withstand waiting any longer. They cook the rice at the lakeside, taking care not to be seen. But when they see the cooked rice they are mesmerised by the scent and the taste and don’t notice that they are spotted by a Khmer Rouge cadet. As a consequence the camp Commander sends them to be ‘re-educated’ (killed) as an example to the rest of the boys.
It is no accident that the Mekong River, symbolized by the Naga, is a source of happiness and fertility in Cambodia. The numerous hydro-electrical dam projects, mostly on its lower main stream, pose big risks for the riparian countries fish resources. This documentary reviews the situation of these projects and provides testimonies of fishermen and scientific observers.
A rich old man pays a young lady, Duong Chan (means “moon” in Khmer language), for pretending to be his second wife, because his first wife has mental illness and she cannot take care of their small daughter. Dung Chan loves the little girl as her own child. A few years later, the old man’s son returns to Cambodia and he hates Dung Chan so much. Can hate turn into love?
After studying magic with a hermit, Preah Thinavong returns to his palace. On the way home, he transformed himself into a leper in order to incite the pity of Princess Neang Pov, the daughter of the king of Borey Champa. The princess pitied the leper so much that she gave him her scarf. Her older sisters assumed that she had a lover and convinced her father to dismiss her from the palace…
An educational short film on the discrimination and dignity of transgender people in Cambodia.
A man's story of survival under Lon Nol's dictatorship, and the Khmer Rouge, and beyond
In Ratanakiri, Broty Ranchong weaves for a living and lives with her youngest daughter, Sanoy, who works on a farm. One day, Sanoy was raped on her way to work and has a baby girl. Her brother and her sister told her to sell her, but, instead, she decided to work even harder so that her daughter could go to school.
Mlek Phon, a 22-year-old woman of Pnong ethnic origin, lives in Puja village, Mondulkiri province. Her father is a farmer while her mother is a housewife and a winemaker. She is the eldest of four children. Since her parents are getting weaker and older, Pun quit school to help them. She works hard in the fields and brings her siblings to school. The eldest brother decided to follow her and quit school to support the family. At the same time, Phon is very worried about her second brother because instead of listening to her and doing homework, he prefers hanging out with friends and playing games. She puts all her hope in her youngest sister who should graduate and become a doctor or a police officer.
In Banteay Meanchey province, Mom Beng, Vai Sok and their daughter Chanra are homeless and have to move their temporary shelter as they get evicted from the land where they settled. They use their cart both to move their belongings and to offer delivery services. Mom would like to go and work in Thailand but Vai feels happy as it is, with his family around.
Phuon Keo lives with her two grandsons who joined her in the province of Banteay Meanchey because their mother’s husband, who lives in Koh Kong, is an alcoholic and treats them badly. She would like to be able to reunite the family to give her grandchildren a chance to go to school, but her entourage advises her to stop thinking about her daughter and only care for her two grandchildren.
Rammayee, a Jarai woman, is a native of Lai village, Khnol commune, Oyadav district, Ratanakiri province. She orphaned when she was 2 years old and then lived with her aunt and aggressive uncle. As she did not want to burden her aunt any longer, she decided to get married at the age of 15 years. Unfortunately, she suffered from health problems during pregnancy. Her first-born had been underweight then and had suffered from constipation. Rammayee and her husband decided to borrow money for their child´s surgery in Phnom Penh. Despite of hard life in the village, they both work hard to raise their child. They hope that their child will not follow them, but instead of getting married early will go to school and have a better life.
Nghas Hourng was married at 16, she had four children - one of them died. Divorced from her husband who beat her and his children, she lives completely destitute in Ratanakiri province with her three daughters. One of whom is sick but Nghas does not have enough money to take her to the health center. Between two harvests, she tries to survive hunting crickets and fishing snails, crabs and small fish.
This film is about Ravi Chor Vy, an ambitious Kreung ethnic teacher in Krala Village, Ratanakiri, who fights to preserve the Kreung culture for the improvement of the community. Trying to pass on the Kreung language to the next generation, she does not stop teaching at school even during pregnancy and afterwards carrying her baby in arm. But as children do not understand the value of education, they resist learning and even after going school for years cannot read nor write properly. However, Chor Vy has not given up her teaching efforts and was therefore promoted by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport.
Cambodian slasher movie.
The indigenous Chong people, who live in the last great forest of Cambodia in the Areng Valley of the southwestern Koh Kong province, intuit the borders of their land through a fundamentally embodied experience based on ancestral and oral histories. A recurrent element in such histories is the presence of spiritual animals that inhabit the forest. The Areng Valley is under continuous environmental and geo-political threat, marking the potential end of the Chong's way of life. Together with a team that includes the dancer and choreographer Nget Rady, Khvay Samnang has embedded himself in the community, working with the Chong people to learn how the politics of land and the sense of belonging are increasingly at odds with each other.
WE WANT (U) TO KNOW reveals how Cambodians are struggling to cope with painful memories at the time of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. This is a participatory film: Villagers from all around the country take the camera in their hands to document what they have gone through during and after the Khmer Rouge era. Through sharing their stories with the young generation, survivors are breaking 30 years of silence and initiating a powerful discourse about the challenges of the present. The big screen under the trees becomes a public space for confrontation, a picture of hope beyond this film.
The incredible true story of two women who fell in love, survived the Khmer Rouge, became a family, and transformed a community. A heartbreaking and uplifting look at the power of the human spirit and the will to survive.
