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A small band of volunteers attempt to rescue sex slaves from a Syrian border camp in Hogir Hirori’s gripping, harrowing, superb documentary SABAYA (2021, 90 min). More than 2000 women have been smuggled into and traded by the “radical muslims’ Daesh (ISIS) within Al-Hol, a refugee and internment camp run by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.

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.

This is the story of a spectacular case of robbery that is changing the art world. An iconic temple statue, looted during the chaos of the Cambodian civil war, turns up in Sotheby’s auction catalogue 40 years later – with a price tag of three million dollars. But New York’s attorneys intervene..

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With behind the scenes access to the largest litigation involving drinking water in American history, “How to Poison A Planet” (2023, 95 min) investigates how the use of a product as seemingly harmless as firefighting foam, has resulted in the contamination of communities all over the world. Spanning from the heart of New York City to a small First Nations community in Australia the film exposes one of the most widespread environmental disasters in human history.

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. Viewers would be excused for believing they were watching genuine footage of Phnom Penh days after the city’s liberation. In fact, the Czechoslovakian-Cambodian production was made after the Vietnamese had occupied the city – but only just.

“Boramey” (2021, 60 mins) by Tommaso Facchin and Ivan Franceschini explores the phenomenon of spirit possession and mass fainting in Cambodian garment factories. Through the stories of three young women who had brushes with supernatural beings in the workplace, we get a glimpse of the life of Cambodian garment workers at the intersection of work, religion, family, and spirituality.

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The life and career of George Orwell and how his political observations are still relevant in the present day, particularly the lessons from his novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four.” The documentary “Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5” (2025, 120 min) is a dense, urgent, and unapologetically blunt documentary that offers a chillingly relevant examination of totalitarianism’s enduring appeal and the societal conditions that enable it.

The revival of Cambodia’s rich and unique cultural heritage has fueled the country’s impressive recovery from the Khmer Rouge’s genocide of 1975-79. The video compilation RE.BIRTH (2011, 120 min) includes historical short films about the re-opening of the Royal University of Fine and the development of Cambodia’s contemporary art scene in the early 2000s, video art pieces and early interviews with prominent Cambodian artists who have influenced the country’s art scene and gained recognition both locally and internationally.

In the documentary ANTONIO GAUDI (1984, 72 min) filmmaker Hiroshi Teshigahara profiles Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi. Much of Gaudi’s work pays homage to the Catalan art of the Middle Ages — Gaudi being a Catalan himself — and so Teshigahara pays careful attention to the historical context of the artist’s most renowned works.

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“Goya’s Ghosts” is a sweeping historical epic told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Set against the backdrop of political turmoil at the end of the Spanish Inquisition and start of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon’s army, the film captures the essence of beauty of Goya’s work which is best known for both the colorful depictions of the royal court and its people, and his grim depictions of the brutality of war and life in 18th century Spain.

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.

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After climbing to Amazon’s #1 New Release in Cambodia and Travel, Romi Grossberg’s memoir Hip Hop & Hope has toured Australia and Asia to packed rooms. Now, for the first time, it is coming home to Cambodia.