Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center
Our collections come from institutions, individuals and NGOs. For example, in 2012, Ms. Sokol Somrit donated the Bophana Center twelve 33-rpm vinyl records of 1960s Cambodian popular music. Australian Paul Cummings, who was the first foreigner to guide tourists in Cambodia in the 1980s, also donated nearly 500 photographs of that time. The French institution for communication and audiovisual production (French Ministry of Defense - ECPAD) also enabled us to show archives of the Protectorate times. We sometimes receive documentaries made by NGOs in Cambodia.
Collection containing a film about the restoration of Angkor temples
Cambodian people photo series (1890). Portraits of children, women, men and monks in front of their house.
Photo series documenting Phnom Penh’s architecture between 1968 and 1970. Photos of buildings, pagodas, Catholic churches, movie theaters, and the Central Market.
Films documenting the Chams communities
Cambodian wildlife documentaries
American Museum of Natural History
Andreas Friedrich Müller
Anne-Marie Filaire (AMF)
Apsara TV
Film documenting human resources development and environmental issues in Asia
Film covering the activities of the Association of Buddhists for the Environment
Songs and radio programs collected and preserved by Father Ponchaud during the Democratic Kampuchea period (1975-1979)
B & F Shaw (BFS)
BBC MEDIA ACTION
Cambodian Architecture photo series (2008). Photos of Bokor, Kep, Council for the Development of Cambodia (a colonial building built to accommodate the upper Resident in the early 1920s), markets, housing and drawings on the wall.
Bernard Dupaigne
Amateur movies shot by Bertrand Maffre during his trip to Cambodia in 1960 and documenting a variety of subjects, such as: daily life, General de Gaulle’s visit, the Water Festival, the Festival of the Dead, and funerals
Films featuring the Mekong River and dams’ construction
Film covering the Bophana Center’s activities
15 documentary and fiction films and music records produced by the Bophana Center
Brigitte Nikles
Documentaries by Bruno Carette featuring the former Khmer Rouge leaders, Asian dance and Father François Ponchaud (between 1997 and 2009)
Cambodia Health Education Media Service (CHEMS)
Traditional music and songs of Cambodia
Educational movies about newly-graduated students choosing their career path
Photo series documenting Charles de Gaulle’s visit to Cambodia in 1966
Charles Gravelle Foundation
Amateur movies documenting Khmer traditional clothes, traditions, and Buddhism
4 documentaries about children’s daily lives in the paddy field, contemporary art and refugee camps along the Thai border
Cambodian wildlife documentaries
Cambodia’s newsreel and the movies produced during the periods of Sangkum Reastr Niyum, Khmer Republic, Democratic Kampuchea, People’s Republic of Kampuchea and the State of Cambodia. Since 2000, the Cinema and Cultural Diffusion Department of Cambodia has also produced documentaries about the Khmer temples and traditional dances.
Colin Grafton
Documentaries featuring ethnic minorities in Ratanakiri and Mondulkiri as well as their issues, culture and daily life
Dara Roat Production
Films documenting the activities of young Cambodians, including circus, rugby, and everyday life
David A.Feingold
David Brisbin
Documentaries by the students of the Department of Media and Communication of the Royal University of Phnom Penh. They question the Cambodian society, the working conditions, and memories.
Colonial architecture photos (scanned in books)
Film documenting the restoration of Baphuon temple
Documentaries by various filmmakers since the late 1960s, including movies by Ateliers Varan (1995), documentaries about the Khmer Rouge period, and documentaries about Cambodian artists
Photo series by Jean Boulbet. Portraits of people taking refuge in Angkor temples during the war in 1970.
Films featuring Cambodia between 1945 and 1953
Elisabeth Strang
Photo series documenting U.S. journalist Elizabeth Becker’s trip to Democratic Kampuchea in 1978
Black and white photo series (1959), documenting the Rolland Camp area, located in the district of Oraing in Mondulkiri province
3 radio programs on education and health care, including: “Future is in your hand” (Anakot Khuong Dai Neak), episodes 1-44; “Peaceful Boundary” (Prum Sok San Dey), episodes 1-14; and “Happiness in Our Family”, episodes 1 to 15
Archive film documenting the hearings in the trial of Duch, the former director of Khmer Rouge Security Prison S21
7 contemporary short movies. Most of them were directed and produced by young Cambodians, sometimes supported by associations.
François Ponchaud
Photo series featuring the ethnic minorities in Ratanakiri and Mondulkiri provinces between 1994 and 2006
Films about water issues in Cambodia and worldwide
The oldest movies featuring Cambodia (1899)
1960s photo series, documenting Cambodian traditions, the Festival of the Dead, the temples, and Phnom Penh
Cambodia’s newsreel from the protectorate until 1993
Films documenting the life and work of Swiss Beat Richner, the founder and director of the Kantha Bopha Hospital
3 photographs shot by French artist and photographer Georges Rousse in an old colonial style house located at 32 boulevard Sothearos in Phnom Penh
Film produced by Handicap International about disabled landmine victims
Fiction movie “Preah Thinavong” directed by Ly Var in 1966
Filmed interview with Hervé Robillard and photographs taken by the artist during his residency in Phnom Penh
Fiction series “At the Gates of the Factory”, episode 1-6
Indrak Tevy Production
Corporate movies about the ICRC’s humanitarian action and Cambodian refugees following the Khmer Rouge period
International News
Movie “Fear and Hope in Cambodia”, documenting the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements
Documentaries about King Norodom Sihanouk and politics in contemporary Cambodia
Photo series featuring Cambodians’ daily lives in the provinces in 2006 and colonial architecture
Documentary “Uncle Rithy“, featuring Rithy Pahn during the shooting of the movie “A Dam Against the Pacific” in 2008
Jean-Michel Gallet
Jenna Grant
Photo series featuring former U.S. President Bill Clinton visiting HIV-positive orphans in Phnom Penh in 2006; and a movie about the Water Festival in 2010
Films covering Cambodia after the collapse of the Khmer Rouge (1979-1993)
Photo series on Cambodian society (from 1989 onwards)
Archive movies documenting key events worldwide (1919-1973)
Julien Poulson
Photographs of Cambodian leaders and people during the Khmer Rouge regime
Katsutaro Shiratori
Movies documenting traditional dance performed by the dancers of the Khmer Arts Academy
Interviews with former dancers of the Royal Ballet of Cambodia and movies featuring traditional dance performances
26 films covering the trial of Duch, the former director of Khmer Rouge Security Center S21
Kim Sothea Thangdy’s shorts
Short movies directedbymembers of the KonKhmerKounKhmer Association
3 fiction movies produced by Kong Chey Production in the 1960s
4 fiction movies directed by Uong Kan Thuok in the 1970s
A 1970s fiction movie
Lao Sunn Ngoun
Films documenting the history of the Khmer Rouge and the trial of the former Khmer Rouge leaders
Library of congress
Lucas Vallerie
1970s fiction movie “Khmer after Angkor“
Ly Polen
4 fiction movies directed by Mao Ayuth in the 1990s
Photo series documenting Lao President Souphanouvon’s visit to Democratic Kampuchea in 1977
Megan Webster
Mekong River Commission
Documentaries about the Mekong River
Amateur movies shot in the 1960s during a personal trip
1950s photo series, documenting Cambodian daily life, the Water Festival, Phnom Penh, the Chinese New Year, and temples
Collection of the oldest photographs exposed in the Bophana Center (1866-1873), including series featuring King Norodom’s dancers and the temples of Angkor
Movie documenting General de Gaulle’s visit to Cambodia and the Vietnam war
Cambodia’s newsreel between 1946 and the early 2000s (covering the periods of the Protectorate, Sangkum Reastr Niyum, Khmer Republic, Democratic Kampuchea, People’s Republic of Kampuchea, State of Cambodia and the Kingdom of Cambodia).
Neang Kavich
New Collection
Nicolas Trifunovic
Nihon Denpa News
Educational movies about health care in Mondolkiri province
Over 30 movies directed by King Norodom Sihanouk in the 1960s, 1990s and 2000s. The collection also contains Princess Buppha Devi films, featuring Cambodian dance, the Royal Palace, and musical performances composed by Norodom Sihanouk himself.
Photos of Phnom Penh shot in the 1980s, a few years after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime
Paulin Van Im
Pen Ron
Filmed circus performances and educational animation movies produced by Phare Ponleu Selpak
Photo series featuring 1970s Cambodian film posters
Pic Bunnin
6 Pov Sok films documenting the Cambodian society, cinema and music (2000s)
Fiction movie “Pous Troung Oun Tov” directed by Saravuth in 1975
Fiction movie produced by Preah Chinvong Production in 1966
2 fiction movies directed by Dy Saveth and her husband Houy King in 1973 and 1974
Radio France’s programs covering Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge, and the people’s trauma
Radio Television Swiss
Documentary about Ms. Peng Phan (2011). 1960s TV host and the character of several Rithy Pahn films, she opened an orphanage and has struggled to pass on the Khmer culture.
18 fiction movies and documentaries directed by Rithy Panh
Auguste Rodin’s drawing of Cambodian dancers (1906)
Roger Roure
Photo series featuring the victims of the American bombings in 1974
Ros Serey Sothea
Sally Ingleton
Sébatien Braquet
Sim Chanya
Sin Sisamouth
4 fiction movies directed by Sok Sothun between 1998 and 2008
Stefan A. Ellis
Photo series documenting shop signs, trains, movie theaters and the society in 1990s Cambodia
Films about children and the youth produced by young Cambodians
Photo series featuring the local people’s life in the region of Khone waterfalls, in Southern Laos near the Cambodian border
4 movie performances directed by Svay Sareth, a contemporary Khmer artist
2010 documentary about the transmission of Cambodian arts by surviving artists, especially Em Theay, a former dancer of the Royal Ballet and dance teacher
2 documentaries featuring Sam Khong. A navy gunner in Cambodian in 1971, he moved to the United States for military training. When the Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh in 1975, Sam was still in Texas and he could not make his way back to Cambodia.
30 interviews with former Khmer Rouge soldiers
Vinyl records collection of Cambodian traditional songs and music
Photos documenting Cambodian politics and society in the 1990s
3 documentaries about the memory of the genocide
State television TVK-produced films covering Cambodia’s social issues
Movies documenting the preservation and restoration of the Angkor temples
Educational movies about health care and maternity in Cambodia
3 fiction movies produced by Van Chan in the 1970s
Photo series featuring Boeung Kak Lake evictions, Cambodian telecom company’s headquarters, chess, Cambodia’s first tower, and the daily activities of a household
Images of paintings by survivor of S21, Vann Nath
1970s Cambodian movie posters
Wildart Film
Educational movies about violence, family, drugs…
Women’s Voice Center
Written documentation
A film featuring Lake Tonle Sap, the threats to its ecosystem and development projects proposed to the local population
Photo series documenting photographer Yoko Toda’s visit to Angkor in 1965
You Khin
2010 documentary on Arn Chorn–Pond movie, a Khmer Rouge child soldier
8 fiction movies produced by Baksey Thansour Production in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 2000s