you can rent or buy this film on Vimeo:

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/lastoftheelephantmen

1h 26 min

Release Date:

April 2015 (Canada)

A film by Daniel Ferguson and Arnaud Bouquet

For centuries, the Bunong indigenous people of Eastern Cambodia lived with elephants, depending on them for every aspect of life. Now with the forest around them threatened by logging and mining companies, both the Bunong and the elephant face a desperate struggle to survive. Last of the Elephant Men follows three generations of elephant owners as they attempt to save the animal at the heart of their identity.

Filmed over several years, Last of the Elephant Men is an elegy for the domestic elephant in Asia and a plea to protect the remaining wild population. From pristine wilderness and isolated villages to the iconic temples of Angkor and the bustling streets of Phnom Penh, the film reveals an intimate portrait of Cambodia’s disintegrating heritage, remarkable human-animal interaction, and an indigenous people trying to find solutions to universal problems.

Documentary / 65’ / 2013

This is the last bastion. A few kilometers from the Vietnamese border, Cambodia’s Bunongs are facing with the implementation of economic concessions, which are said to bring them "development". In fact they lose their cemeteries; they lose their fields; they lose the nourishing and protective forest. Their land is being razed by the rubber companies’ bulldozers. Pou Chap, his family and his neighbors are concerned with the practices of these companies, but they refuse to become rubber laborers. They learn the hard way to survive in an increasingly difficult environment; and they try to safeguard what they can of their identity. This documentary focuses on their daily life on Cambodian Highlands, on their peaceful but noble struggle for the sake of their souls.

for more infomation about the Bunong Indigenous People, pleas visit:

EcoSolidar / Swiss: https://www.ecosolidar.ch/de/

http://www.mondulkiri-centre.org/

Bunong Indigenous People's Association

Film synopsis

A 14-year-old Cambodian boy secretly leaves home in search of a better life, but is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he decides his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.

92 min,

Australia 2019

http://www.umbrellaentfilms.com.au/movie/buoyancy/

Österreich 2018

Run time 51 minutes

In den siebziger und achtziger Jahren mussten unzählige Menschen vor dem Terrorregime der Roten Khmer aus Kambodscha fliehen. Schätzungen zufolge sind dieser Schreckensherrschaft mehr als zwei Millionen Menschen zum Opfer gefallen. Die meisten, die entkommen konnten, verschlug es in die USA, Kanada, Frankreich oder Australien. Einige hundert fanden in Österreich ein neues Zuhause. Wie fängt man ein neues Leben an, wenn die Kultur zunächst völlig fremd ist? In ausführlichen Interviews erinnern sich fünf Kambodschanerinnen und Kambodschaner der ersten Generation an ihre einprägsamsten Erlebnisse nach der Ankunft in Oberösterreich.

68 min

Cambodia 2016

"Kim Hak, young Cambodian photographer, looks for a new imaginary of his country. Nhem En, old photographer of the Khmer Rouge regime, is planning his entry in the business of dark tourism. What image to choose to represent our history, our country? But, above all, what to do with it?"

https://www.alexanderfontana.com/portfolio/hidden-photos/

78 minutes

Cambodia/France 2019

“We’re used to seeing a house for its roof, windows, and walls. But in the end, as we move out of here, it breaks my heart." Filmmaker Kavich Neang's father is one of the hundreds of residents who must leave the iconic White Building in Phnom Penh. This housing block bore witness to a tremendous series of events: the young nation's Golden Age; a traumatic breakdown under a radical regime; decades of cultural revival centered within its walls; and, the rapid pace of capitalist development that would ultimately lead to its demise. Now the once radiant walls are grey and damaged. Neang, born here in 1987 and raised inside, once dreamed of shooting a fiction film here, but reality overtook his plan. It’s now the location for his first full-length documentary. When demolition comes, it’s all just a memory.

When Kikuo Morimoto (68), a kimono artisan from Kyoto arrived in Cambodia after the Cambodian civil war, the culture of weaving traditional Cambodian textiles was on the verge of extinction. Morimoto reclaimed idle, deforested land and created a village community sustained almost entirely by the traditional dyeing and weaving of Cambodian textiles. His efforts led to a renaissance in Cambodian traditional textile culture and set an example for combining a self-sustaining village and the revival of traditional culture, an example that has been widely lauded as an antithesis to modern civilization.
However, several years ago, Morimoto was diagnosed with terminal cancer: he has only years, maybe months to live. Consciously, he is approaching the end of his life. Strands of memories from exploring the frontiers of Japan and Indochina flowing through his mind emerge into consciousness. The imagery created from interweaving these strands from Morimoto’s memories with life in his textile-weaving village reveals Morimoto’s innermost feelings. Cambodian Textiles is a documentary film that follows both Morimoto, the terminally ill patient, and life in his textile-weaving village for over two years.

Cambodia, documentary 2015, 52 minutes

Brief synopsis:

April the 17th 1975, the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia. They emptied the city within 2 days and turned the country into a forced labour camp. Our documentary film starts precisely that day.

As for the whole population, Thell and her relatives are “invited” to take belongings “for 3 days only”. Very quickly, they realize the scope of the political project that is taking place under their powerless eyes. No, they will not be leaving “for 3 days only”.

But for how long? To go where? And to do what? In order to justify the unjustifiable, the Khmer Rouge repeat tirelessly as a leitmotiv: “Walk strait forward, Angkor will welcome you”. So road after road, village after village, Thell and her relatives started to forge their single goal: survive this horror.

Through the lives and dignity of a family, this documentary film mentions four years of starvation, illness, forced labour, during which this people cut off from the rest of the world has turned on itself.

Rent of by the movie here:

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/welcometoangkar/117663418

Music documentary, 2014

1h 45 min

Early on in John Pirozzi's documentary, a commentator observes, "There is a saying in Cambodia: Music is the soul of a nation." And if Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll is any indication, this Southeast Asian country has a lot of soul.

Through the eyes, words, and songs of its popular music stars of the 50s, 60s, and 70s, 'Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock & Roll' examines and unravels Cambodia's tragic past, culminating in the genocidal Khmer Rouge's dismantling of the society and murder of two million of its citizens. Combining interviews of the surviving Cambodian musicians themselves (a total of 150 hours of interviews were filmed) with never-before-seen archival material and rare songs, this documentary tracks the twists and turns of Cambodian music as it morphs into rock and roll, blossoms, and is nearly destroyed along with the rest of the country.

read more here:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/dont-think-ive-forgotten-cambodias-790752

Cambodia, 2014

30 minutes

The movie SCARS OF CAMBODIA is a 30 minutes silent documentary, which received many awards and selections in international festivals.

Synopsis:

Tut is a 52 years old fisherman living in Kampot. In spite of the language barrier, he told, for the first time and without any words, about his past during the Khmer Rouge Regime, to a photographer and a director, showing the hard treatments he experienced in a prison the year he turned fifteen. This shared encounter talks about the buried memory, the way it shows through gestures, attitudes and glances, the way it marks someone for life and constitutes a person. Tut's psychological and physical traumas bring to light the historical scars of Cambodia.

watch the movie here:

https://www.alexandreliebert.com/copie-de-scarsconteng

website:

https://www.alexandreliebert.com/scarsprojeng

Documentary, Cambodia 2010

runtime 93 minutes

2015 by Lauren Shaw

Producer Paul Feinberg, Mimi Edmunds;

Angkor's Children is a film about Cambodia's cultural and artistic renaissance, a generation after the Khmer Rouge regime, that tragically eliminated 90% of artists and intellectuals. The story of this renaissance is told through the voices of three young Cambodian women: Sreypov, a smot singer of Buddhist poetry, Phunam, a circus artist, and Saem, a leader of a grassroots, all-girl protest band. We witness their challenges, hardships, and accomplishments as they find their identity and rebuild their national culture through their art.

read more here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1850498611/ankgors-children

A rare film from Rithy Panh

in french language, with english subtitles

75 min.

France is our homeland reevaluates the colonial mission through archival films from French Indochina. Exile is a poetic meditation on the intimate devastation caused by the Khmer Rouge genocide, which he experienced as a child, where the ideal of violent purity of revolutions and the individual and existential destruction of beings are confronted.

Run Time 68 minutes

2017

Cambodia’s government routinely evicts landowners, profiting from lucrative international real estate deals brokered at the expense of the country’s most vulnerable citizens—that is, until the corrupt politicians meet their match in “Mommy.” Refusing to abandon what’s rightfully hers, this elderly grandmother holds her ground in the face of escalating physical and legal threats. Her stalwart courage inspires the neighborhood’s younger women to mount a more organized resistance. As law enforcement officers resort to increasingly violent tactics for disrupting the protests, the movement garners political momentum and a groundswell of local and international support. Although it unfolds in Phnom Penh’s poorest district, Mommy’s Land hits close to home. The exploitation of the poor is the direct result of a global economy in which U.S. real estate developers and the World Bank are the ultimate beneficiaries of Cambodia’s land grabs. Mommy’s struggle against this political profiteering presages this year’s global women’s response to our own real estate mogul–cum–president.  TAW

you can watch it here:

https://www.amazon.com/Mommys-Land-Nget-Khun/dp/B07MK5FZQM

2015

Run time 54 minutes

In Cambodia's Prey Lang forest deforestation is devastating the lives of the indigenous population. Environmental activist Chut Wutty is determined to fight the illegal practices of logging companies but when investigating a secret military-controlled logging site, Wutty is shot dead. 'I am Chut Wutty' follows Wutty's fierce battle against illegal logging in an extraordinary tale of one man's courageous battle to save Cambodia's forests.

Film in full lengh here:

https://vimeo.com/164665283

read more here:

https://www.journeyman.tv/film/6541/

2011

Run time 42 minutes

In 1987, four refugee families told, in painful and gruesome detail, their stories about life under Pol Pot. 25 years on they tell us how they have dealt with the painful memories and what it has been like to rebuild their lives in a foreign land. Speaking frankly, they reveal the good and the bad - the moments of triumph and despair, and the challenges of learning a new culture.

See more here:

https://www.amazon.com/Where-Are-They-Marian-Wilkinson/dp/B072FJZF5H

2010

Run time 56 minutes

This is the tragic story of a man killed by the state for his drive to help people. The investigation into Vichea's murder reveals that the criminality of Cambodia's ruling elite has no bounds, and they will do anything to cling to power. Director Bradley Cox tracks down witnesses, government officials, and former policeman to try and uncover the identities of Chea Vichea's murderers.

2019

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This Little Land of Mines is an independent feature documentary premiering in 2019. It's about the resilience of the Lao people as they live among and work to clear 80 million unexploded ordnance (UXO) that the United States dropped during the Vietnam War era. Most Americans have no idea the United States was involved in Laos because it was entirely covert. The US bombing of Laos spanned three US presidents and was the largest covert CIA operation in US history.

Today, millions and millions of unexploded bombs continue to kill and maim innocent people; almost half the victims of UXO accidents are children. The vast majority of Laotians are subsistence farmers, so the constant fear of striking a bomb in their fields is not only a physical threat, but a psychological terror.

read more here:

https://www.thislittlelandofmines.com/

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