This year, the “Speak Out, Sisters” team curates an exclusive 4-day mini-festival spotlighting international women’s lives and women’s rights, featuring standout documentaries by leading Cambodian filmmakers – each presenting their work live on the Meta House stage.

Free entry. All films with English subtitles.

STRENGTH (Cambodia, 15 min, Dir. Sao Sopheak): Phnom Penh’s skyline is rising fast – built by thousands of countryside workers, a third of them women. Filmmaker Sao Sopheak follows one of these women, capturing resilience, risk and the hidden human cost behind the city’s rapid transformation.

Presentation by Sao Sopheak

MINERITA (Bolivia, 28 min, Dir. Raúl de la Fuente): In the shadow of Potosí’s mines, women face daily threats—from domestic and sexual violence to the deadly dangers of the mines themselves. This powerful short reveals the brutal reality of surviving in one of the world’s harshest environments.

WEAVING DREAM (Malaysia, 4 min, Dir. Ibtisem Ben Nassib): Meet Isham, a single mother from Malaysia’s B40 community who turns her life around through NGO Women of Will. With new entrepreneurial skills, she builds a thriving sewing centre—and becomes a community leader lifting other women out of poverty.

STRANGLED (Cambodia, 40 min — Dir. Robin Narciso): From Phnom Penh to Poipet to Ratanakiri, three Cambodian women battle microfinance debt with heartbreaking consequences: a failed business, a family abandoned, grueling scavenging for survival, and land on the brink of confiscation. A raw, urgent look at the human toll of predatory lending.