AFI DOCS is an international documentary festival in the United States.

Documentaries in the festival are seen by influential audiences that have the ability to shape our society such as cultural leaders, senators, congresspersons and Supreme Court Justices.

Screenings during this annual five day event take place in landmark venues in Washington, DC and the world-class AFI Silver Theatre, the independent film hub of the metropolitan region.

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This year, the Cannes Film Festival offers a new prize for documentary films, entitled “L’Oeil d’or” (means “golden eye” in French). The prize will shed a new light on the documentaries presented at the Festival, offering them more recognition and a better visibility. The prize will be awarded by juries presided over by Rithy Panh, Syrian producer Diane El Jeiroubli, Actrice Irène Jacob, Film maker Nicolas Philibert and Critic of Variety, Scott Foundas. The award will be presented on May 23, the day before the closing of the festival.

Learn the past – Create the Future

Co-produced by Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center and Cambodia Living Arts presented by Season of Cambodia

Throughout 2015, the Acts of Memory program will commemorate this day 40 years later; inviting public audiences and participants to reflect upon the damage of the Khmer Rouge period, while simultaneously encouraging explorations of identity, self-expression, and community collaboration. In particular, the program aims to engage young Cambodians on issues of memory through events and activities that seek to enhance historical understanding and to raise questions about how a society remembers to move past atrocity.

We are happy to present our events scheduled for March and April. With a total of conferences, Artist’s talk, Lecture, screenings during the Cine Saturday and Cine Club as well as a major event about “Acts of Memory”. We hope to have you with us!

Be our guest!

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We are happy to present our events scheduled for January and February. With a total of conferences, screenings during the Cine Saturday and Cine Club as well as a major exhibition in partnership with Photo Phnom Penh, we hope to have you with us!

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On May 15th, 2014 the restored editions of the recordings of Reamker told by Ta Krut in the 1960’s received the honorable inscription as a Memory of the World Regional Register for Asia Pacific.

Bophana Center organized the event ‘ Reamker Storytelling’ on the 24 October 2014 to celebrate this marked occasion for Khmer culture and people. We would extend our thanks with much gratitude to Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, the UNESCO office in Phnom Penh and the National Commission for UNESCO for their cooperation and support on this important project.

We are happy to present our events scheduled for November and December. With a total of conferences, screenings during the Cine Saturday and Cine Club as well as a major exhibition in partnership with AEC-Foyer Lastaste, we hope to have you with us!

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Another distinction for Bophana Center ‘s Founder and President.

The International Documentary Association (IDA) announced on Thursday in Los Angeles that Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh will be this year’s recipient of its Preservation and Scholarship Award.

A great honour for Cambodia as well.

The Last Refuge, a Bophana production, gets another award by the FreedomFilmFest 2014 in Jaya, Malaysia.

Congrads to AnneLaurePoree and GuillaumeSuon.

Freedom Film Festival (FFF) is Malaysia’s most established annual human rights film festival. They adopt the themes encompassed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and believe that the protection of basic human rights is the foundation for genuine justice, peace, equality and democracy.

We are happy to present our events scheduled for September and October. With a total of conferences, screenings during the Cine Saturday and Cine Club as well as a major exhibition in partnership with the French Institute in Cambodia, we hope to have you with us!

Download the program here!