
Cambodia’s largest independent arts center invites locals and foreigners to join our hub for creativity, community vitality, and lifelong learning.



CULTURAL EVENTS
CAMBODIA’S LARGEST INDEPENDENT ARTS CENTER INVITES LOCALS AND FOREIGNERS TO JOIN OUR HUB FOR CREATIVITY, COMMUNITY VITALITY, AND LIFELONG LEARNING.
CULTURAL EVENTS
march, 2023
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All
All
Classical Music
DJ Parties & Live Music
Exhibitions
Film Screenings
Talks & Performances
Tournaments
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META HOUSE PHNOM PPENHSIMA Festival 2023All screenings start 7.30PM SIMA FESTIVAL (DAY 5: IMMIGRATION)We invite you to the “Social Impact and Media Awards Festival” (SIMA), showcasing the best documentaries about human
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META HOUSE PHNOM PPENH
SIMA Festival 2023
All screenings start 7.30PM
SIMA FESTIVAL (DAY 5: IMMIGRATION)
We invite you to the “Social Impact and Media Awards Festival” (SIMA), showcasing the best documentaries about human rights in our world today. Free Entrance. All films with English subtitles.
AGUILAS (USA, 15 min): Along the scorching southern border in Arizona, only an estimated one out of every five missing migrants is ever found. Águilas is the story of one group of searchers–the Águilas del Desierto–who volunteer monthly to recover the missing.
SANSÓN AND ME (Mexico, 83 min): During his day job as a Spanish criminal interpreter in a small town in California, filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes met a young man named Sansón, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who was sentenced to life in prison without parole. With no permission to interview him, Sansón and Reyes worked together over a decade, using hundreds of letters as inspiration for recreations of Sansón’s childhood—featuring members of Sansón’s own family. The result is a vibrant portrait of a friendship navigating immigration and the depths of the criminal justice system, and pushing the boundaries of cinematic imagination to rescue a young migrant’s story from oblivion.
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
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META HOUSE PHNOM PPENHSIMA Festival 2023All screenings start 7.30PM SIMA FESTIVAL (DAY 6: PRISON & POLICING)We invite you to the “Social Impact and Media Awards Festival” (SIMA), showcasing the best documentaries
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META HOUSE PHNOM PPENH
SIMA Festival 2023
All screenings start 7.30PM
SIMA FESTIVAL (DAY 6: PRISON & POLICING)
We invite you to the “Social Impact and Media Awards Festival” (SIMA), showcasing the best documentaries about human rights in our world today. Free Entrance. All films with English subtitles.
ANGOLA: DO YOU HEAR US: VOICES FROM A PLANTATION PRISON (USA, 26 min): The story of Liza Jessie Peterson’s shutdown performance of her play The Peculiar Patriot at Angola, America’s largest prison-plantation. The documentary examines what led to the shutdown, the material that confronted a system and the impact of her visit after it was erased by prison authorities.
FREE TO CARE (USA, 14 min): A single mother with a passion for nursing, Lisa Creason wanted the freedom to pursue her dreams. When an unjust law prohibited her from doing so, she took the fight into her own hands and ended up opening doorways for thousands like her.
Amidst the global uprising against police violence, NO VISIBLE TRAUMA (Canada, 98 min) is a searing investigation of the deeply troubled police department in the Canadian city of Calgary, which shot and killed more people than the New York or Chicago police departments in 2018. From the kidnapping and beating of a young African immigrant, to a “wellness check” turned fatal, the film exposes extreme police brutality and a justice system that refuses to hold officers accountable.
Time
(Sunday) 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
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Susan Sontag was a critical essayist, cultural analyst, novelist and filmmaker. The queer, Jewish woman who disdained the rhetoric of identity was diffident about disclosing
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Meta House shows the best feature films and documentaries about female artists every Tuesday, 7PM (except on exhibition days).
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(Tuesday) 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
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META HOUSE PHNOM PPENHSIMA Festival 2023All screenings start 7.30PM SIMA FESTIVAL (DAY 7: OVERCOMING DIFFERENCES) We invite you to the “Social Impact and Media Awards Festival” (SIMA), showcasing the best documentaries about
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META HOUSE PHNOM PPENH
SIMA Festival 2023
All screenings start 7.30PM
SIMA FESTIVAL (DAY 7: OVERCOMING DIFFERENCES)
We invite you to the “Social Impact and Media Awards Festival” (SIMA), showcasing the best documentaries about human rights in our world today. Free Entrance. All films with English subtitles.
FAMILY IN TRANSITION (Israel, 70 min): A story of the only transgender family in a small town in Israel 40 STEPS (Israel, 78 min): An orthodox school in south Tel Aviv is divided into half for a new secular elementary school. In a shared playground, both schools must coexist, while the identity of different communities are put to the test.
Time
(Tuesday) 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
wed29mar7:30 pm9:00 pmSIMA FESTIVAL (DAY 8: DISABILITY)7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Event Type :Film Screenings
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META HOUSE PHNOM PPENHSIMA Festival 2023All screenings start 7.30PM SIMA FESTIVAL (DAY 8: DISABILITY)We invite you to the “Social Impact and Media Awards Festival” (SIMA), showcasing the best documentaries about human
more
Event Details
META HOUSE PHNOM PPENH
SIMA Festival 2023
All screenings start 7.30PM
SIMA FESTIVAL (DAY 8: DISABILITY)
We invite you to the “Social Impact and Media Awards Festival” (SIMA), showcasing the best documentaries about human rights in our world today. Free Entrance. All films with English subtitles.
PERFECT (90 min, Israel): Asaf, a chief content editor in the television industry, paralyzed on his left side, embarks on a journeyGROUNDED (Canada, 7 min) about Marie-Hélène, a respected figure on the Canadian contemporary art scene,
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(Wednesday) 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
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The docu ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE (2009, 93 min) by Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath depicts the 10-year quest of co-director Sambath to find truth
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Meta House shows the best feature films and documentaries about Cambodian history every Thursday, 7.30PM.
Time
(Thursday) 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
fri31mar8:00 pm9:00 pmPERFECT SOLDIER (MODERN CAMBODIA)8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Event Type :Film Screenings
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J. Severson’s A PERFECT SOLDIER (2010, 60 min) tells the story of Cambodian Aki Ra, who planted hundreds of landmines for the Khmer Rouge. Later,
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Meta House shows the best films from modern Cambodia every Friday, 8PM
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(Friday) 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
The Meta House Goethe-Center promotes student success through a cultural, academic and social framework in collaboration with community partners.
EUROPEAN HOSPITALITY
EUROPEAN HOSPITALITY
BERLIN BAR:
German Hospitality in the Penh
Germany’s capital Berlin is famous for its awesome nightlife: countless bars, pubs and events, combined with one of the best club scenes of the world.
At Meta’s Berlin Bar the Cambodian owner aims to emulate its namesake, to be a hub of Phnom Penh’s new party culture where diversity is welcome and ideas flow. If you can’t visit Germany, you can, at least, drink and eat there.
The menu includes German sausages and premium beers (wheat, blonde and dark); friendly service, live concerts, open-air-fim screenings and weekend DJ sessions add to the fun.
Daily opening hours: 8am – Midnight (closed on Mondays).
GENOVA RESTAURANT
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Homemade Italian Food
Are you hungry for a new experience? The Italian city Genova is heaven for foodies. The birthplace of the basil-based sauce “pesto” is also a seafood hub, where street-corner eateries or award-winning restaurants showcase top-quality produce.
“Genova” is operated by Genova-native Roberto Boero and his wife, who strive to serve the best homemade pasta and pizza in Phnom Penh at moderate prices.
Everything is cooked to order. So be prepared to wait a few minutes longer, while enjoying a glass of red wine – it’s worth it.
Daily opening hours: 5pm – 10pm.
For reservations or take-away, please email us or call 095-392525
META TUBE
META TUBE
Sober Road (Short Documentary by Polen Ly)
Cambodian filmmaker Polen Ly follows the story of a traffic accident victim in Phnom Penh[+] Show More


Cambodian filmmaker Polen Ly follows the story of a traffic accident victim in Phnom Penh[+] Show More
















LATEST BLOG ENTRIES
LATEST BLOG ENTRIES


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Tea with the Colonels
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Musik Unter Palmen
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Modern women and their new code of conduct
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Honecker, Hallstein and Pol Pot
The Berlin Wall may have fallen in 1989, but nostalgia for communist East -Germany lives on in the hearts of approximately 4000 Cambodians who took refuge in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) during the civil war of the 1980s.


Foreign Familiar
Although the Vietnamese ended the genocidal Pol Pot regime in 1979, they did not bring complete peace and security for Cambodia. Cambodia was isolated from Western countries until the “Paris Peace Agreement” in 1991, which brought diplomatic and economic relations with the USA, European Union and the rest of the world