Cambodian Films @ Meta-House
Aug 4th, 2008 by Jinja
[First time to Meta-House? All films are free. ]
Dear Meta House Friends!
As always we would like to inform you about our programs
featuring great documentaries/feature films from Cambodia.
This week at Meta House you can watch exciting works
by the old and young generation of Cambodian filmmakers.
On-going is the art exhibition TRANSFORMATION with Khmer and US artists.
TUES, 05/08 NEW CAMBODIAN DIRECTORS NIGHT
WED, 06/08 THE BURNT THEATRE by Rithy Panh
THURS, 07/08 “1960s IN CAMBODIA” RARE & CLASSIC FILMS
FRI, 08/08 DOC NITE: HIV/AIDS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA
SAT, 09/08 FOCUS CAMBODIA: “Rain Falls from Earth” by Steve McClure
Filmmaker will be present at the screening (Q&A)
SUN, 10/08 SET IN ASIA: SURPRISE FEATURE FILM
Detailed infos below. Pls. come by and enjoy.
All the best, Nico Mesterharm/Lydia Parusol
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TUES, 05/08
CAMBODIAN DIRECTORS (1)
1 GIVING BACK shows a recycling project at Bergvliet High School (Cape Town/South Africa) directed by Phana Chheng, while he was studying documentary filmmaking in Cape Town, 2007/2008.
2 THE WAVE OF CHANGE highlights the real voices and lives of the people who have been affected by and living along the Mekong (directed by filmmaker Reap Chum and journalist from Thailand, Laos and Vietnam)
3 TOMORROW by Cambodian filmmaker Om Kimsour tells about the impact of globalization in Ratanakiri
WED, 06/08
CAMBODIAN DIRECTORS (2)
THE BURNT THEATRE by Rithy Panh
The Burnt Theatre, or Les Artistes du Theatre is a French-Cambodian docudrama directed by Rithy Panh. A blend of fact and fiction, the film depicts a troupe of actors and dancers in the burned-out shell of Cambodia’s former national theatre in Phnom Penh.
THUR, 07/08
CAMBODIAN DIRECTORS (3)
CAMBODIA 1965
Rare Super-16mm footage from Cambodian Palace archive – shot as advertisement for the World Expo. Highly interesting propaganda film that shows the development of Cambodia in the 1960s.
ROSE OF BOKOR
A feature film by HRH Norodom Sihanouk.
FRI, 08/08
DOC NITE: HIV/AIDS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA
1. WITH HOPE AND HELP Filmmaker Georg Peter Mueller finds inspiring models of support and acceptance within Khmer society. (2006, 52 min)
2. BATTLE OF LIFE Arte documentary by Nico Mesterharm about the first Buddhist-Christian Aids hospice in Takeo province. (2002, 25 min)
3. HEAVEN’S MEADOW Moving film by Detlev Neufert about Thailand’s first children’s village where HIV-positive orphans find again a family and a future. (2005, 90 min)
SAT, 09/08
FOCUS CAMBODIA
Rain Falls from Earth: Surviving Cambodia’s Darkest Hour
A story of courage, of survival and of eventual triumph over the Communist regime that was responsible for the deaths of over 2 million people. Narrated by Academy Award nominated actor, Sam Waterston, this doc film gives a voice to those lives that were senselessly lost. Filmmaker Steve McClure will be present at the screening. (2008)
SUN, 10/08
SET IN ASIA
Film presented by Florianne Wild (Ph.D. in Film and French). For detailed information, please contact directly Florianne Wild email: fwild59@hotmail.com
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