We invite you to the launch of our STORIES OF SISTERS mini-film-festival, featuring four shorts directed by female filmakers, as well as a music video by male auteur Ly Polen.

All films with English subs.
Free Entrance.

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* INVISIBLE KNOT (2020, 7.21) is a music video by NGO Women Peace Makers, directed by Ly Polen. It encourages Cambodian women to speak out about violence in society.

* Sophea Kim began her career by participating in the production of Rithy Panh’s feature film “The Sea Wall”. In 2009, she joined the founding team of the “Cambodia Film Commission” and continues to be a key member of “Cambodia International Film Festival” organizing team. GREY FEATHER (2019, 20 min) artfully explores the topic of binational relationships in Cambodia.

* Caylee So came to the U.S. when she was a child refugee. After finishing high school, she spent eight years in the U.S. army and was deployed twice to Iraq. In the war-zone, she found her passion for storytelling after being inspired by a film, and later studied film production in California. Her unique voice about immigrant identities have guided her career as a director. Caylee’s short film PAULINA (2012, 30 min) tells the story of a 17-year-old Cambodian-American girl, who struggles with her father and the realities of gambling addiction

* Sothea Ines’ LOST INNOCENCE (2023, 23 min) weaves a complex narrative set against the backdrop of the digital landscape, where Botum, a girl besieged by grief and poverty, falls prey to the insidious charms of Socheat, a cyber predator. Engulfed in a digital labyrinth of deceit and coercion, Botum’s fight for survival beckons an ally in the least likely of places. Produced by NGO A21.

* Sao Sopheak was the first female Cambodian director to present her short film “Two Girls against the Rain” at the Berlin Int. Film Festival in 2011. Most of her documentaries focus on gender topics. In 2017, Sopheak shot Yon Davy’s dance performance GREEN NET (dedicated to Phnom Penh’s female construction workers) on the rooftop of the “White Building”, just months before its demolition.