๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ง ๐ข๐ก ๐ง๐๐ ๐ ๐ข๐จ๐ก๐ง๐๐๐ก by @savtharaa in Italy!
Official selection in the International Competition of 74th @trentofilmfestival (April 24 โ May 3, 2026)๐ฅ๐ฎ๐น๐ฅ
๐๐ผ๐ป๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ to Savunthara and the whole Team ๐๐๐
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#lightson #hungryforqualitycinema #amazingfilms #incidentonthemountainfilm #TrentoFilmFestival
๐ฌ Cambodian Cinema Spotlight at Eye Filmmuseum ๐ฐ๐ญ
As part of CinemAsia, Golden Slumbers by Davy Chou will be screened at Eye Filmmuseum.
This documentary revisits Cambodiaโs golden cinema era of the 1960sโ70s โ a powerful reflection on culture, memory, and loss.
๐ April 9 | 17:00
๐ Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam)
๐ค Includes an introduction
๐๏ธ Tickets & info:
https://cinemasia.nl/filmfestival/golden-slumbers-le-sommeil-dor/
A meaningful moment to reconnect with Cambodian film history and support its presence internationally ๐ฐ๐ญ
#CambodianCinema #DavyChou #GoldenSlumbers #CinemAsia #CSA CambodiansInNL
The ๐๐๐ค๐ฃ๐๐๐ง๐จ programme at ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐บ๐๐๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐ถ๐น๐บ ๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐น brings together films from ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐๐ด๐ช๐ข that move through exile, memory, and the fragile afterlives of cinema. From censored works to fragments rescued from disappearing archives, these films remind us that history is never fully erased.
Curated by @sarntolstice , this special section uses โdreamingโ as a recurring cinematic motif, in which these films, now far removed from where they were made, express political will and offer critiques of Cold War nationalism and colonial legacies.
๐ผ๐ก๐๐๐๐ฃ (1953) employs the Arabian Nights folktale as a vehicle for social commentary; ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฃ (1977) follows a farmer whose dreams traverse the borderlands between Thailand and Laos; ๐๐ค๐ก๐๐๐ฃ ๐๐ก๐ช๐ข๐๐๐ง๐จ (2011) reconstructs the largely destroyed history of Cambodian cinema through acts of remembrance and dreaming.
Together, these works call upon us to awaken, engage with their histories, and carry their legacies forward.
The programme presents selected fragments of Sarnt Utamachoteโs curatorial work at Sinema Transtopia, drawn from The Past Is Not Another Country, developed in collaboration with the German Film Museum Frankfurt.
Sarnt Utamachote is a Southeast Asian nonbinary filmmaker and curator based in Berlin. Their practice connects activism, archives, and community collaboration. They programme films for the Short Film Festival Hamburg and XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin, and premiered their short film ๐ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏโ๐ต ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ข ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ (2024) at Berlinale Forum Expanded, BFI London Film Festival, and International Queer and Migrant Film Festival.
Le rรฉalisateur et producteur franco-cambodgien Davy Chou, cofondateur de Vycky Films et Anti-Archive, est au festival Cinemasioย :
โข ร la sรฉance Tables rondesย : le cinรฉma asio-descendant
โ samedi 21 mars ร 16h30
โข ร la projection de son film 'Retour ร Sรฉoul' (sรฉlection Un Certain Regard Cannes 2022).
โ dimanche 22 mars ร 14h
โข pour sa masterclass consacrรฉe ร lโensemble de son travail. Sa vision du cinรฉma, les secrets de sa mise en scรจne, de lโรฉcriture ร la direction dโacteurs.
โ dimanche 22 mars ร 17h15
Infos : lien en Story
ou forumdesimages.fr
Festival Cinemasio
3 jours, 25 rรฉalisateur.ices, une multitude d'histoires. Du 20 au 22 mars.
#davychou #cinรฉma #cinema #masterclass @festivalcinemasio@daychoudavy
Chinese filmmaker Lai Yuqing, who shot her debut feature, Whisperings of the Moon, last year in Cambodia, after joining the New Asian Filmmakers Workshop in April 2024 in Phnom Penh, tragically passed away on 2nd January 2026. She was only 23.
She met and hung out with many people from the local film community here, and I remember how the participants of the 2024 workshop were impressed by the short films she had previously shot in China โ films that were beautifully and intensely driven by a desire for freedom, self-affirmation, and the absolute.
Last November, Song Seakleng organized a film screening event at our space, and he programmed a special screening of Yuqingโs films, including her shorts and an exclusive, unofficial preview screening of her feature, Whisperings at the Moon. Although this film was shot in Khmer and in Cambodia, you could feel she had put so much of herself into it, in the story and in the wide and intense emotions the characters, interpreted by Sopheanith Thong and Deka Nine, are going through. Similarly to her shorts, this film reflected her uncompromising artistic ethos.
Last week, on December 29, Yuqing stopped by our office, to attend an impromptu film discussion between curator Sam I-shan and film critic Amarsanaa Battulga. We hadnโt met for a while, maybe a year, and I was surprised to learn she had just settled in Cambodia a week ago. ยซย What you gonna do?ย ยป, I asked. ยซย Iโm planning to make another film hereย ยป, she answered.
At the end of the talk, I turned to her: she had left already. I learned two days later that she had been admitted to the ICU on that very night. The exact circumstances of her death are now under investigation.
Itโs devastating to start the year with such tragic news, on top of the madness we are witnessing, both nationally, with the unresolved ceasefire at the border, and internationally.
Letโs hope and work for better days.
My deepest condolences to her family and friends.
Here is a review of her feature, after its premiere at Busan Festival, last October: /2025/10/whisperings-of-the-moon/
Kanitha Tith loves to live hidden, but I feel obliged to mention that she will have her first Los Angeles art show, at Chris Sharp gallery, opening this Saturday 6 September 2025, 5pm-8pm, in her presence.
Itโs a two-person exhibition with Singapore-born US-based artist Jovencio de la Paz. Their pairing will highlight ยซย the formal affinities of their work, which approaches materiality and weaving in totally unique ways.ย ยป
Infos here: /upcoming
Show will be on from September 6 - October 4
Location: 5538 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038
Iโll share even bigger news after the opening...
Today is a special and meaningful day. Becoming Human, the debut feature by Cambodian filmmaker Polen Ly, has its world premiere at Venice Film Festival, in the Biennale College Cinema section.
For us at Anti-Archive, itโs probably our biggest achievement since White Building by Kavich Neang, and only the second feature by a Cambodian director that weโve been the main producers of. To see it premiere in Venice today gives a lot of meaning to the work weโve been building for over ten years.
I feel deeply proud that we have accompanied this filmโs journey. Polen has an extraordinary voice โ full of poetry, sensitivity, and courage โ and itโs moving to see his vision come to life on the big screen.
Becoming Human tells the story of the spirit of an abandoned cinema facing its imminent destruction, and its choice of whether or not to be reborn in human form. Itโs a powerful contemporary tale, dealing with spirituality, friendship, human nature and the courage of living, which resonates far beyond its setting.
I wish I could be in Venice today, but my heart is there. This premiere is not only a special moment for the film, but also a beautiful milestone for Cambodian cinema, and Iโm excited for what lies ahead.
Congrats to Polen, producer Daniel Mattes and absolutely everyone involved in the making of this film.
