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TEN high school filmmakers have been chosen as Cambodian youth ambassadors to compete in the Asia International Children’s Film Contest in Japan this December. Their three-minute movies were chosen from among entries by 60 secondary school students in Phnom Penh and Kandal province, with the screening to determine the finalists held at the Cambodia Japanese [...]

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) — A famous Chinese action movie star Jet Li (Chinese name: Li Lianjie), and American movie actress Angelina Jolie are expected to be included in a new movie to be produced in Cambodia. In a press conference held on Wednesday in Phnom Penh, Thomas Magyar, a project manager for the [...]

AHIT murder mystery set in modern-day Phnom Penh will make its debut at the North Korean film festival, which opens tomorrow. Vanished features an attractive radio show presenter who becomes terrified that her life is in danger after two of her close friends mysteriously disappear. Dealing with issues of trust and the struggle for independence, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]