Khmer Magazine

Forty years after King Sihanouk’s attempt to challenge Cannes and Berlin with his own Phnom Penh International Film Festival, Cambodia’s film industry is languishing and cinemas are closing across the country. A lack of funding, trained personnel and especially a shortage of creative ideas mean the industry is developing at a snail’s pace, Western experts [...]

After a first film adaptation of the famous novel entitled The Sea Wall (Un Barrage Contre le Pacifique) by French film director René Clément, the Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh decided to take over by adapting it to the big screen too. The piece is one of the French author Marguerite Duras’ first novels and contributed [...]