Agenda

Screenings

24
May

Meeting with Stephen Row: A young film reviewer and director
  • 6:30 pm
  • Bophana Center
  • Cine Club

Mr. Van Sidaro, nicknamed Stephen Row, is a passionate film lover. There are three things he wants to do the most: "Making film, Making film, and Making film." In addition, he is a well-known film reviewer on social media and he has created a group of film reviewers called "Popcornkh" with many members and fans.

For the Cine Club this month, we are so delighted that Stephen Row will be the guest speaker and he is ready to meet all fans and film lovers. He will also present five short films, which are his most influential films: "The Signal", "Unbreakable Heart", "Helmet", "The String" and "Don’t Scream".

Free admission

25
May

Phka Sla Dance Drama
  • 6:00 pm
  • Bophana Center
  • Cine Saturday

Produced by the Bophana Center, 2018, 82 min, Khmer version with English subtitles

A group of 16 female dancers are using classical dance to depict the horror of forced marriages during the Khmer Rouge. The dance performance tackles a subject that was a taboo in Cambodia society until not long ago and uses subtle movements, set to the slow rhythm of traditional music, that progressively quickens to depict the cruelty of physical and sexual violence.

Free admission

8
June

Annâdya
  • 6:00 pm
  • Bophana Center
  • Cine Saturday

Produced by the Bophana Center, 75 min, Khmer version with English subtitles

Designed to promote appropriate technology for smallholders to increase food security among indigenous peoples, the project has been named in short Annâdya, which in Sanskrit means “the happiness to eat enough food”. Annâdya focuses on three axes: the improvement of agricultural production and productivity; the improvement of beneficiaries’ nutrition and the development of sustainable grassroots institutions. It is carried out in about 64 villages and aims to benefit to 10,000 vulnerable Cambodian rural households.

Free admission

15
June

Shadow of Angkor
  • 6:00 pm
  • Bophana Center
  • Cine Saturday

Directed by Pierre-Oscar Levy and Barbara Spitzer, 1997, 55 min, Khmer version

After decades of war, Angkor remains a sacred place for Cambodians. Shot on the site of Angkor, this film offers us a meeting between Cambodia past and present. With archaeology specialists, researchers and even farmers in Siem Reap, the film will take us into the history of Khmer civilization.

Free admission

22
June

Bone of the father’s hand
  • 6:00 pm
  • Bophana Center
  • Cine Saturday

Produced by Van Chan production, 1971, 85 min, Khmer version

During the closing ceremony of a martial art competition, four friends take an oath in front of their master with the aim to engage themselves to unite in the interest of the Country.
But the existence of a famous knife called “Chhoeng Day Ov Puk” which is a matter of jealousy, change that friendship atmosphere. Envious of the power given by the magic knife, the barbaric Chan betrayed his oath that he signed with his blood. He killed landlords and his comrade. To take revenge for his father, Noun starts to search the magic knife in a mysterious temple.

Free admission

29
June

Cambodia: between war and peace
  • 6:00 pm
  • Bophana Center
  • Cine Saturday

Directed by Rithy Panh, 1991, 65 min, Khmer version with French subtitles

The film, shot at the end of 1991 at the time of Norodom Sihanouk’s return to Cambodia, questions the Cambodian people and explores the horrors and effects of the Khmer Rouge on them and what future they may look forward to.

Free admission

Special Events

25
April

Landscapes Afterwar(d)s

  • 6:00 pm
  • Bophana Center
  • Exhibitions

Organized by Soko Phay and Patrick Nardin, Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis University

From April 25 until May 25
Opening reception on April 25, at 6pm

After a first exhibition at the Faux Mouvement Center for Contemporary Art in Metz (France) in November 2018, the Bophana Center now welcome a group of young artists, both Cambodian and international, who have worked within the program’s context and on the memory of places, especially that of Phnom Penh, a city in constant turmoil. Their photographs, videos and installations show how they recognize themselves in the events of the past, through different types of archives, vestiges and testimonies.

Free admission

30
May

“The Basis to Step Forward” Book Launching Party

  • 5:30 pm
  • Bophana Center
  • Conferences

Written by Mr. Sou Savoeurn

As a part of promoting the reading culture as well as encouraging Cambodian writers, the Bophana Center, the Scholar Library, and Business Record co-organize a launching party of a new book written by Mr. Sou Savoeurn, entitled " The Basis to Step Forward”, describing leadership and ways to identify yourself.

In the event, there will be a gathering between writers and those who are working with books who will be attended as honorable guests as well as young people who love to read.

Free admission

31
May

The first films of the “Amplifying Voice for Indigenous Women and Discriminated Groups” project

  • 6:00 pm
  • Bophana Center
  • Special Screening

The Bophana Center is carrying out a training course on documentary filmmaking, involving 12 participants. Most of them come from indigenous communities in Cambodia and never gained any experience in filmmaking before. Within the five-month training and under the guidance of experts, the trainees, finally, have finished their first documentaries.

All trainees have made a great effort to write stories, to shoot videos around Phnom Penh, and to edit the produced footage by themselves. How good are their first achievements? Let’s find out together on May 31st!

After achieving their first films, all trainees will travel to the indigenous communities where they live to continue their mission of making new documentaries.

This training course is supported by VOICE, through Oxfam in Cambodia, the Australian Embassy in Cambodia, and Heinrich Böll Stiftung, in collaboration with Cambodia Film Commission.

Free admission

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