LATER this year film fans will be able to wean themselves off their usual diet of pirate DVDs, for a few days at least, when the first annual Cambodian International Film Festival takes place in Phnom Penh.
Scheduled to run from October 20 to 23, the Kingdom’s inaugural cinematic event was announced at a press conference [...]

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The teenagers packed into the cinema at Sorya on a weekday afternoon are so loud and excitable I think maybe they’ve had too much Coca-Cola.
As the tension rises just a few minutes into the film and the first shocking moment is revealed, audience members jump out of their seats and scream their collective heads off.
The [...]

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In a country where the film industry used to be embodied in the person of the King, the idea of rebuilding the culture of cinema from the bottom up may seem just a bit out of place. But that is exactly what CamboFest organiser Jason Rosette is trying to pull off.
The second CamboFest festival, which [...]

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