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For proof of the universality of rock ’n’ roll, look no further than Cambodia in the 1960s and ’70s. Even there, young people picked up electric guitars and studied Mick Jagger’s moves, melding Eastern melodies with Western grooves in ways that are still strikingly fresh.

The exoticism of Bhutan and the spiritual philosophy of Buddhism combine with an eerie invented ritual by which masked anonymity allows participants to inhabit a limbo world of the present that excludes the past and future in lama/director Khyentse Norbu’s visually rich though narratively challenging “Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait.”

Dr. Ottara Kem never spoke of his Cambodian background. But on his deathbed, he expressed his desire to be buried in his homeland Cambodia. For his film-making daughter Marina Kem, it is the beginning of an intense, poetic, and conciliate journey.

Cambodian rock of the 1960s and 1970s was a thriving and prolific music scene based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in which musicians created a unique sound by combining traditional Cambodian music forms with rock and pop influences from records imported into the country from Latin America, Europe, and the United States.

An American crime sketch artist gets entangled in Cambodia’s treacherous underworld as she pursues the truth behind her brother’s mysterious death. Filmed in the back alleys of Phnom Penh, with a local and expat cast and crew, Amit Dubey’s “Silent Murders” (2023, 77 min) will take you on a wild ride into the Cambodian underground.