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Shortcomings and Award-Winners
It took this blog over three weeks to report on the fact that one of the key film makers in Southeast Asia has won the Golden Palm in Cannes: Apichatpong Weerasethakuls “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall...
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Cambodia International Film Festival opens
The Cambodia International Film Festival opened tonight with a ceremony at the beautiful Chaktomuk Hall by visionary architect Vann Molyvann from 1961. As if to proove that old Cambodian-Vietnamese...
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Cambodia International Film Festival: Lost Loves
The big event of the Cambodia International Film Festival was the premiere of the movie “Lost loves” by Cambodian Chhay Bora. It is the first film of the director who runs a travel agency as a day job,...
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Cambodia International Film Festival: Closing Ceremony
And now it is already over again: I just returned from the Closing Ceremeny of the Cambodia International Film Festival, a relatively glamourous affair with the Minister of Culture, various other...
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Oh my God, delayed screenings at the Vietnam Film Festival!!!
One would wish that the Cambodian International Film Festival had these kinds of problems: “The festival was not without teething problems, with screenings delayed, subtitles projected out of sync,...
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The program of Luang Prabang Film Festival is out…
…look for it here. Filed under: Competitions and Festivals, Laos Tagged: Luang Prabang Film Festival
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DMC Student Wins Award at Science Film Festival in Bangkok
Chum Sophea, student at the Department of Media and Communication at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (where I teach), won the Third Prize at SEADocs, a science film festival in Bangkok. His short...
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Cambodian Films at the Berlinale
This video serves as a reminder of the stubborn materiality of film, actual film, not film-as-digital-file. It shows Cambodian master director Ly Bun Yim trying to spool the first reel of the Cambodian...
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Ly Bun Yim: Puthisen Neang Kongrey (12 Sisters, Cambodia 1968)
I wrote the program notes for the screening of Ly Bun Yim´s Cambodian classic “12 Sisters” (Cambodia 1968) for its recent screening at the Berlin Film Festival. You can download them here, or read them...
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Tea Lim Kun: Puos Keng Kang / The Snake Man Pt 1 (1972)
Here are the program notes that I wrote for the screening of Tea Lim Kun´s “The Snake Man” at the Berlin Film Festival. Download the pdf here, or read the text below. More on classical Cambodian cinema...
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