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A thousand years ago, the Khmer people of Cambodia built an empire and their capital was the great city of Angkor, with its centerpiece being Angkor Wat – a vast temple complex covering an area more than four times the size of the Vatican City.

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.

Sex with a virgin girl can be worth as much as 1200 dollars to an Asian man. Srey Leak (16), Me Nea (17) and Cheata (17) are all victims of the virginity trade. They met as karaoke girls at the ‘Soul’ club in Phnom Penh.

Rom Romvong is a Phnom Penh–based acoustic-electric trio serving an energetic fusion of Khmer and English funk, rock, and reggae. Seamlessly blending traditional local rhythms with global iconic hits, the band crafts a distinct hybrid sound driven by acoustic guitar, cajón, and dynamic electric percussion pads. Rom Romvong turns every set into an infectious, cross-cultural dance party tailored for diverse international and local audiences alike.

BERLIN BAR SESSIONS — Beatz, Beer & Food from the Heart of Europe 

The place is Phnom Penh, 1979, immediately following the fall of Pol Pot. A grainy film shows a Czechoslovakian doctor walking through the debris around the deserted Central Market. Amid piles of shoes is a grandfather clock, evidently left standing in the street since the city had been evacuated four years earlier. He winds up the derelict artifact of a lost time and a chime rings out.

TOGETHER: THE LAST HOPE — PREMIERE