With or Without Me (Vietnam)
Thi and Trung live in the gorgeous, rice-terraced mountains of Vietnam’s far northwest. Like many young men in this region on the main heroin route from Laos to China, they’re addicts, and they have HIV.
Featured Stories
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Bounthanh: Lost in the City (Laos)
Bounthanh, a nice guy from countryside, comes to study at the university in the city and with the mission of finding Khamla, the niece of village’s abbot. Bounthanh discovers that Khamla has completely changed. With assistance from three new best friends, he tries to change Khamla back to how she was before.
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Always on My Mind (Laos)
Four stories tell how four pairs of people meet and love during the time of New Year. A girl with special feelings for a friend does not know what to do at a college reunion party he is rumored to be joining in order to distribute his wedding invitation cards.
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Hak Aum Lum (Laos)
Sack, a pop singer, returns to his birthplace once again after having left to pursue his dream. In doing so, he also left many people behind, especially Sopha, his long-time lover.
Editors' Picks
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Enemies of the People (Cambodia)
Posted on October 24, 2012 | No CommentsThe Khmer Rouge ran what is regarded as one of the twentieth century’s most brutal regimes. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained. Until now. In ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE the men and women who perpetrated the massacres – from the foot-soldiers who slit throats to the party’s ideological leader, Nuon Chea aka Brother Number Two– break a 30-year silence to give testimony never before heard or seen.Unprecedented access from top to bottom of the Khmer Rouge has been achieved through a decade of work by one of Cambodia’s best investigative journalists, Thet Sambath. Sambath is on a personal quest: he lost his own family in the Killing Fields. The film is his journey to discover not how but why they died. In doing so, he hears and understands for the first time the real story of his country’s tragedy. -
Golden Slumbers (Cambodia)
Posted on October 24, 2012 | No CommentsCambodian cinema flourished in the 1960s, drawing huge crowds to theaters around the country, until the industry was destroyed by the Khmers Rouge in 1975. Of the 400 films produced, only 30 remain today. Almost all the actors were killed during the reign of Pol Pot and only a few of the directors were able to flee the country. Most of the old movie theaters of Phnom Penh have become restaurants, karaoke clubs or squats. Golden Slumbers resurrects the myths and legends of this lost cinema. Through survivors' stories and the search for remnants of their era in modern Phnom Penh, the film reveals the vital importance movies had for an entire generation, as well as the complex legacy they leave today's youth to inherit. -
Who Killed Chea Vichea? (Cambodia)
Posted on October 24, 2012 | No CommentsWho Killed Chea Vichea? is about the murder of a Cambodian labor leader and the two innocent men sentenced to twenty years in prison for the crime. In 2004, Cambodian union president Chea Vichea was assassinated in broad daylight at a newsstand in Phnom Penh. As international pressure mounted, two men were swiftly arrested and convicted of the crime, each sentenced to twenty years in prison. Filmmaker Bradley Cox’s five year investigation reveals an elaborate cover-up that reaches the highest echelons of Cambodian society. -
Garuda in my Heart (Indonesia)
Posted on October 24, 2012 | No CommentsBayu is a 13 year old boy who has a dream of becoming a great football player. Every day, with his best friend Heri, Bayu practices’ football by dribbling through the narrow streets of his neighborhood. Trusting Bayu’s talent as a footballer, Heri encourage Bayu to enter the selection for Indonesia’s U-13 Football Team. But Grandpa Usman, Bayu’s grandfather, forbid Bayu to play professional football. Will Bayu be able to fulfill his dream? -
Land Beneath the Fog (Indonesia)
Posted on October 24, 2012 | No CommentsIn the rhythm of a slow visual journey “The Land Beneath the Fog” is taking an intimate look on family relations in Genikan, a village on the slope of Merbabu mountain. -
Postcards from the Zoo (Indonesia)
Posted on October 24, 2012 | No CommentsLittle Lana was three years old when she was abandoned alone in the zoo. Raised by a giraffe trainer, the zoo is the only world she knows. Until one day, a charming magician arrives and Lana finds her love, for she is ready to leave the zoo. Lana embarks on journey, until one day, she decided to go back to the place where she was abandoned.
