META HOUSE PHNOM PPENH

SIMA Festival 2023

All screenings start 7.30PM

SIMA FESTIVAL (DAY 6: PRISON & POLICING)

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.

ANGOLA: DO YOU HEAR US: VOICES FROM A PLANTATION PRISON (USA, 26 min): The story of Liza Jessie Peterson’s shutdown performance of her play The Peculiar Patriot at Angola, America’s largest prison-plantation. The documentary examines what led to the shutdown, the material that confronted a system and the impact of her visit after it was erased by prison authorities.

FREE TO CARE (USA, 14 min): A single mother with a passion for nursing, Lisa Creason wanted the freedom to pursue her dreams. When an unjust law prohibited her from doing so, she took the fight into her own hands and ended up opening doorways for thousands like her.

Amidst the global uprising against police violence, NO VISIBLE TRAUMA (Canada, 98 min) is a searing investigation of the deeply troubled police department in the Canadian city of Calgary, which shot and killed more people than the New York or Chicago police departments in 2018. From the kidnapping and beating of a young African immigrant, to a “wellness check” turned fatal, the film exposes extreme police brutality and a justice system that refuses to hold officers accountable.