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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 teenager is magically transported to China and learns to convert his video game skills into those of a Kung Fu warrior.
- 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.
- 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].
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- An adolescent who leaves rural Cambodia to become a construction worker only to be reunited with his missing older brother.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A story of an ancient "Clock" and a life of a depressed girl without family love.
- 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 Psychiatrist struggles to defeat superstition and old beliefs when a disgraced traditional healer threatens to tear his world apart.
- 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.
- 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.
- After a series of deadly crocodile attacks, a farmer decides to become a crocodile hunter.
- Lida sells modern real estate developments to the new middle class in Phnom Penh. Her relationship with her boyfriend is deteriorating so she escapes to the beach, but finds there that the specters from the past haunt in sublime ways.
- Leak, a transgender Cambodian teen footballer, juggles financial hardship and an uncertain future beyond the women's under-21 team led by her mentor Pa Vann, a father figure championing LGBTQ+ inclusivity.
- Based on a true story, Losing one leg, a man lives on his cyclo-trisaw drives to provide for two children his wife abandons at a pagoda's corner.
- 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.
- Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge regime caused the death of some 1.8 million people, representing one-quarter of the population of Cambodia. Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, was in charge at M13, a Khmer Rouge-controlled prison, for four years before being appointed by the Angkar ("the Organisation", a faceless and omnipresent entity which reigned unopposed over the destiny of an entire people) to the S21 centre in Phnom Penh. As party secretary, he commanded from 1975 to 1979 the Khmer Rouge killing machine in which at least 12,280 people perished, according to the remaining archives. But how many others disappeared, "crushed and reduced to dust", with no trace of them ever being found? In 2009, Duch became the first leader of the Khmer Rouge organisation to be brought before an international criminal justice court. Rithy Panh records his unadorned words, without any trimmings, in the isolation of a face-to-face encounter. At the same time, he sets it into perspective with archive pictures and eye-witness accounts of survivors. As the narrative unfolds, the infernal machine of a system of destruction of humanity implacably emerges, through a manic description of the minutiae of its mechanisms.
- 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.
- "Golden Slumbers" is an elegantly assembled and deeply moving remembrance of Cambodian cinema, which shone brightly from 1960 to 1975 .
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- After the Khmer Rouge, the bond between Nakry and Chornai is shattered. Now grown, Chornai embarks on a perilous journey to rescue Nakry from the city's darkness, only to face brutality that forces them into a twisted dance of revenge.
- 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.
- "We've worked so hard on this land," says Sav Samourn. "And now they've come to destroy it all. Sooner or later it will all be gone." In her directorial debut, award-winning filmmaker Kalyanee Mam travels to her native homeland to capture the stories of three young Cambodians struggling to maintain their traditional way of life while the modern world closes in around them. Deep in the jungle, Sav Samourn struggles as large companies encroach and "progress" claims the life-giving forests. She discovers there's little room for wild animals, ghosts - and the home she has always known. In a fishing hamlet, Sari Math must quit school to help support his family. But as the fish catch dwindles, Sari and his family find their livelihood threatened. In a village, Khieu Mok must leave to seek work in a Phnom Penh factory to help pay her family's debts. But city life proves no better, and Khieu struggles between her need to send money home and her duty to be with her loved ones. From Cambodia's forests to its rivers, from its idyllic rice fields to the capital's pulsing heart, forces of radical change are transforming the landscape of the country - and the dreams of its people.
- 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 1969, a Khmer woman marries a French Ex-drug dealer. Addicted to drugs from a young age, he becomes physically abusive to his new wife, playing music as he beats her to cover the sound of her cries. One day the wife finds the courage to defend herself, and in doing so, breaks her husbands prized record player. In a blind rage the husband slits his wifes throat with a shard of the broken disc that had been playing at the time, killing her immediately. 15 years later, the Frenchman's son brings his family to stay at the house in Cambodia. What lies in wait for them at their new house?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.