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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.

An enigmatic Cambodian-Australian puppeteer’s life begins to unravel during a TV performance. Can he be vulnerable to his young daughter about the genocide he fled?

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.

Khmer horror film.

A fictionalised account of the brutal oppression experienced by a family living in a labour camp headed by malicious cadres.

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.

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?

Ride was chosen in the finalists among 16 out of 115 others short films in the SEA Tropfest 2015. The story set in the countryside of Cambodia. Two inseparable young sisters have to come to terms with living apart for the first time. But before they go their separate ways, there’s just one last chance for the ride of their lives.

Heng lives with his close knit deeply Buddhist family in rural Cambodia, who work hard struggling as farmers. At 6, he lost both his arms in a landmine explosion. Now, as a teenager hanging with the wrong crowd, and no future at the farm, his mother sends him to his older brother, Chana, who makes romantic music videos in the bustling city of Phnom Penh. Here, with a bossy brother, amid a So-Me, “wanna-be” culture, Heng must make it. A film about a family who are living the consequences of war which ended decades ago.

Thavory and her big sister fall in love with the same man. Thavory marries him but falls into a dirty plot set up by her sister to drive her away.

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.

Khmer horrror movie.

Vong, a boxer with aspirations of becoming the top athlete in his sport, strives to honor his father's legacy.

Young people tell the strange story of a french family's holidays in Cambodia.

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 young man kidnaps a young girl to impress his friends. When she gets an opportunity she knocks him out, ties him up, and interviews him back.

During 1993 when UN forces come to Cambodia during a time of political upheaval and civil war, two Resistance leaders fall in love with the same girl.

Chantrea is banished from home by her sons when they discover she has HIV. She accepts her exile, even though supporting her family was the reason she worked as a prostitute.

The Forgotten Village is a cinematic journey filled with enchanting magic, reflecting the traditions and customs from the ancient Longvek era all the way to modern times.