META HOUSE PHNOM PPENH

SIMA Festival 2023

All screenings start 7.30PM

TUESDAY MARCH 21, 7.30PM

SIMA FESTIVAL (DAY 1: ACTIVISM)

We invite you to the “Social Impact and Media Awards Festival” (SIMA), showcasing the best documentaries about human rights in our world today. Free Entrance. All films with English subtitles.

ANASTASIA (Russia, 26 min) Russian activist Anastasia Shevchenko was arrested for speaking out against the government. During her imprisonment she was separated from her child who died alone. As Anastasia travels across Russia by train, she realizes that the only way she can fight for freedom is to leave her homeland forever.

ETERNAL SPRING (China, 86 min) Facing vilification of their banned faith in the Chinese state-run media, a soft-spoken engineer and a hulking grain worker hatch a plan to hijack the state TV airwaves. In the aftermath, police raids sweep Changchun City, and illustrator Daxiong (Justice League, Star Wars comics), is forced to flee. He arrives in North America, blaming the hijacking for worsening a violent repression. But his views are challenged when he meets the lone surviving hijacker to have escaped China, now living in Seoul. Daxiong retraces the story through the collective memories of witnesses, bringing it to life through his art.