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.

Anyone with an interest in Berlin, 80s music, punk, techno, youth, hedonism, fashion, drugs, subcultures, the iron curtain, the DDR, alternative films, or German artists in general wants to watch B-MOVIE: LUST & SOUND IN WEST BERLIN – a documentary about music, art and chaos in the Wild West Berlin of the 1980s.

Please be our guests for Meta’s KMF Movie Night, showcasing films from renown Cambodian production company “Khmer Mekong Films”.

Meth abuse is a serious and growing issue all across Southeast Asia, and Cambodia’s youth is particularly badly hit. These three short documentaries delve into the effect that addiction has on people’s lives and the scale of the problem across the region.

When Kikuo Morimoto, a kimono artisan from Kyoto arrived in Cambodia after the Cambodian civil war, the culture of weaving traditional Cambodian textiles was on the verge of extinction. Morimoto reclaimed idle, deforested land and created a village community sustained almost entirely by the traditional dyeing and weaving of Cambodian textiles. His efforts led to a renaissance in Cambodian traditional textile culture and set an example for combining a self-sustaining village and the revival of traditional culture, an example that has been widely lauded as an antithesis to modern civilization.

Meta House is proud to present the “Crash and Bloom” solo exhibition by American, Phnom-Penh-based artist Emily Marques. The title lends itself to her love of nature and her broad spectrum of artwork that focuses on the masses of flowers clamouring for the sun and waves that crash amongst themselves.

Italian Film Night returns on Tuesday, August 12, at 7 pm at Meta House with a special free screening of Il Treno dei Bambini, Cristina Comencini’s poignant 2024 drama adapted from Viola Ardone’s bestseller.

A violent chain of events ensues as a jailed criminal arranges to buy a car from a shady car dealer, unaware that his partner in freedom has squandered most of the money from their last bank robbery on horse race betting.