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- Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge.
- A horror writer rents a cheap room haunted by the ghost of a beheaded woman demanding her missing head back. Nana can't leave until she finds the head, or her daughter will be decapitated.
- A teenager is magically transported to China and learns to convert his video game skills into those of a Kung Fu warrior.
- A wealthy rural Cambodian groom, Bol, falls in love with his bride, Rah, whose reaction to the arranged marriage unfolds in a series of bizarre incidents that leave everyone believing she must be possessed.
- In Cambodia, pregnant Nuon faced villagers' accusations of being the "Dark Mother." Separated from family after locals shunned her "ghostly" child, she realized a mother's duty to nurture, human or spirit.
- 1993, After moving into an abandoned orphanage, They realized that the whole building was cursed by a vengeful spirit, Reatrei. Tragedies start to happen one after another until they find what her curse wants.
- Sorn, a sex worker from the Shan ethnic group of Myanmar, tries to build a future in Chiang Mai, Thailand, as an illegal refugee far from home, but he is drawn into a complex relationship with a client investigating a political activist.
- 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 [Jean-Paul Ly, Dara Our, Tharoth Sam] gets trapped in the prison will have to fight their way out for survival, to protect a key witness [Savin Phillip].
- In the 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 destruction.
- 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.
- A unique documentary on the notorious S-21 prison, today the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with testimony by the only surviving prisoners and former Khmer Rouge guards.
- 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.
- This curse later befalls Gabriels's daughter-in-law, Sylvie. For the husband's magical ritual to be complete, Sylvie must give life to the unborn child by a surgical birth at the enchanters' own hand
- In this Buddhist sci-fi mystery set in near-future Phnom Penh, a young Cambodian detective untangles a link between her friend's past-life dreams of a lost gold artifact and a neuroscientist's determination to attain digital enlightenment.
- A group of travelers visiting the exotic forests of Thailand is suddenly attacked by a multi-weapon wielding maniac. Some manage to escape, others perish under his merciless blows. The maniac is the Spirited Killer, a forest dweller who kills anyone who steps into his jungle.
- In the Life of Music, a story told in three chapters, tells of how one song 'Champa Battambang,' made famous by Sinn Sisamuth (the King of Khmer Music), plays a role in the lives of three different generations.
- 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.
- An adolescent who leaves rural Cambodia to become a construction worker only to be reunited with his missing older brother.
- A story of an ancient "Clock" and a life of a depressed girl without family love.
- A star dancer at the Cambodian royal court lovingly raises her husband's little brother as her own son. Decades later, as a forced laborer under the oppressive rule of Khmer Rouge, she discovers that her foster son is none other than Pol Pot. The mass purges of the regime (spanning from 1975 to 1979 - Pol Pot annihilated 25% of Cambodia's population) are intertwined with painful memories of the relatives of the bloodthirsty dictator, who today stage an impressive dance performance depicting an encounter between the leader of the Khmer Rouge and his foster mother. In this stunning documentary, valuable archival material is seamlessly combined with the images of the dancers, the traditional costumes, and the descriptions of the deep significance behind this major cultural expression of the Cambodian people, offering a flawless outcome, one that is profoundly melancholic, beautiful, and yet at the same time tragic. Art serves as pain relief for the greatest open wounds of History.
- This house was named as the haunted house which is the home of all the vengeful ghosts who committed suicide. The story of the death by hanging the neck in the house keeps haunting everyone. People don't dare to walk across that house after dark. Neasa used this to threaten her boyfriend by lying that she would come and kill herself here like everyone else. But as soon as those terrifying, spiteful ghosts entered them, they had to face all of their fears in order to survive. Could they get through it?
- A Psychiatrist struggles to defeat superstition and old beliefs when a disgraced traditional healer threatens to tear his world apart.
- Khonsaly finds his former Khmer Rouge executioners, in the obscure intimacy of the village in which they lived for 4 years. Between past and present, identities are revealed, the forgotten specters re-emerging and the story, facing the other, is finally told.
- In Cambodian refugee camps, when children are asked where rice comes from, they answer, "from UN lorries". They have never seen a rice field. One day, these children will have to learn to live in Cambodia, i.e., they will have to learn to cultivate, to plough, to work the land. Rice people tries to share this way of life, to demonstrate the fragile equilibrium on which it lies and the freedom it represents.
- In a modern Cambodian high-school, a teenage girl on a quest to discover her first kiss puts her friendship with her childhood friend on the line when an unexpected crush comes into the fray. Amid unexplored emotions of first love, tensions bring to light troubling secrets that will disturb her balance between love, friendship and family.
- "A Cambodian Spring" is an intimate and unique portrait of three people caught up in the chaotic and often violent development that is shaping modern-day Cambodia. Shot over six years, the film charts the growing wave of land-rights protests that led to the 'Cambodian spring' and the tragic events that followed. This film is about the complexities - both political and personal, of fighting for what you believe in.
- During their journey, Mantra, Soma, and their companions ventured into a rural village where the local villagers had a strong belief in the Ting Mong, and Ta Mong rituals. Excited to learn more about these practices, the group eagerly delved into the exploration. However, as they continued to observe and interact with the villagers, they began to disrespect these beliefs, viewing them as nothing more than foolish rituals. Soon after, the spirits residing in these locations began to relentlessly haunt and pursue them, causing the group to seek a way to escape for their survival frantically. It was a tragic turn of events that stemmed from their curiosity and lack of understanding and respect towards the beliefs of the local people.
- A stunning nightclub singer engages in a battle of wits and deception with two lovers in a bid to escape a rapidly collapsing city under siege. Super cool style and razor sharp action drive this rich, noir thriller.
- After the end of the Cambodian Civil War, people in Cambodia struggled in their return to their normal lives. Among them is a kick boxer Savannah (Narith Roeun). A survivor of the war, who lost most of his family to the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, he lives with his uncle in Phnom Penh. Savannah begins a romance with a 19-year-old bar girl, Srey Poeuv (Chea Lyda Chan). She is humiliated by her debts to the bar's owner, and is forced to keep working. Savannah wants to help Srey clear her debt, so he teams up with an ex-soldier and plans a crime that could net him some money.
- This is a 2012 documentary film co-directed by Lida Chan and Guillaume Suon, which portrays a victim of forced marriage under the Khmer Rouge regime. The film premiered at the 2012 International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam and won the Award for Best Mid-Length Documentary.
- Leak, a transgender Cambodian teen footballer, juggles financial hardship and an uncertain future beyond the women's under-21 team led by his mentor Pa Vann, a father figure championing LGBTQ+ inclusivity.
- 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.
- RUIN is an impressionistic fable- the story of Phirun (Rous Mony) and Sovanna (Sang Malen) - two young lovers inexplicably drawn together who escape a brutal and exploitative world of crime and violence in modern day Cambodia. Fleeing Phnom Penh after a murder, they travel deeper into the jungle. As their vulnerable love ebbs and flows along their journey, they wake from the trauma of their former lives and unleash a violent rage upon the world. Love and death intermingle as they travel deeper into the abyss- their world strangely transforming around the two young lovers on the run.
- 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.
- 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.
- Forty years after the Khmer rouge regime: Kim Hak, a young and talented Cambodian photographer looks for a new imaginary of his country. His career starts from some family pictures his mother hid underground before the war and retrieved just after the defeat of the Khmer rouge. Hak's images will take us to a new Cambodia, far from stereotypes. Nhem Ein, as photographer enrolled in the Khemr rouge regime, took more than 14.000 mugshots of the Tuol Sleng prison victims. He's trying to establish himself as entrepreneur of the socalled dark tourism. One of his ideas on how to profit from the thousands of genoside pictures will bitterly surprise us. Which image to choose to represent our own country? But, above all, what to do with it?
- 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.
- The story takes place during the Longvek era. Raj, a tycoon, and Tep Leak, his wife and pregnant with two kids, live in harmony until one fateful day.
- 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.
- "Golden Slumbers" is an elegantly assembled and deeply moving remembrance of Cambodian cinema, which shone brightly from 1960 to 1975 .
- Dean's lifestyle used to be lazy and destructive, but everything changed when he met Star (the little ghost), who became his roommate. Star helped him become more organized and responsible. Plus, Star even introduced Dean to her grandmother - someone he had put in danger before without even realizing it. This experience helped Dean understand why Star had chosen him to care for her grandmother before he left.
- NEARI is a young nurse at Siem Reap-Angkor provincial hospital. She recalls a recent memory: She remembers the arrival of SEIHA, a young doctor came back from France. The team of the surgery service takes care of the patients who are seriously injured by land mines, as the country was full of mines. SEIHA and NEARI decided to marry, but one day SEIHA will be obliged to follow the de-mining team. What is going to happen to them?
- 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 White Building, an iconic structure home to 493 families in Phnom Penh, faces demolition. In the building's final days, Kavich Neang follows three families, including his own, as they pack belongings, share memories and anxieties, and eventually move out before the building's total destruction.
- The film is situated as close as one can get to the life - and thus the spiritual death - of a prostitute.
- Three American filmmakers, fluent in the Cambodian language, explore the complex love-hate relationship between Sang Ly, a young Cambodian mother, and the city dump where she lives. While the dump provides her with a source of income, it's killing her son. Ironically, the dump's name, Stung Mean Chey, means River of Victory. After failing at numerous attempts to heal her son, Sang Ly journeys to her homeland to seek the help of a traditional Cambodian healer. The filmmakers document Sang Ly's successes and failures as she struggles to save her son. In doing so, the dump's name proves to be more prophetic than anyone had ever considered. Is it possible that the dump truly is a place of victory?
- When an American plane crashes in the Cambodian jungle, the pilot is taken captive by the Khmer Rouge. They instruct the kids of a village to keep an eye on the prisoner. While the younger kids gradually become friends with the stranger, the older boy called Pang has a different attitude. Since he grew up without parents, he accepted the Khmer rouge as his replacement parents and endears himself to them by betraying villagers. When Pang becomes responsible for watching the prisoner, things become worse for the pilot.
- 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.
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The twenty-year-old Kanitha is hyperactive and a free spirit. Her very traditional mother would like to see her married and settled. Her father, elderly and sick, is nearing his deathbed. Kanitha is a dreamer, she loves pop music and keeps losing one job after another. But what she really wants is to share one last happy moment with her father: seek out a childhood memory, find a little something to do together so they can be close like they used to.