Kampung Film Festival - 2025

Film Overview: សម្លេងរាត្រី / Sound of the Night

-Director: Sok Chanrado, Vann Kongkea
-Screening Date: Feb-21-2025
-Show Time: 7:00 PM
-Duration: 20mins
-Language: Khme
-Showing Location: Koh Sdach Primary School

✧ ENGLISH SYNOPSIS

Vibol and his brother Kea sell noodles on a motorized cart every night on the streets of Phnom Penh. They often face troublesome threats from gangsters and thieves, even if these very people are their only customers. As the city is growing around them, they consider their unstable income and imagine a different future.

Film Overview:  ពេលដែលត្រូវយំ / Pel Del Trov Yum (1972)

✧ ENGLISH SYNOPSIS

The film is about a triangular relationship between a man, Kong Som Eun, and 2 women, Vichara Dany and Kim Nova. The film consists of 5 hit songs including the all-time famous Pel Dael Tron Yum (The Time to Cry).

Film Overview: ខ្យល់ខែកុម្ភៈ/ February Wind (2018)


-Director: Mony KannDarung
-Screening Date: Feb-22-2025
-Show Time: 7:00 PM
-Duration: 16min
-Language: Khmer
-Subtitle: English
-Showing Location :  Koh Sdach Primary School

✧ ENGLISH SYNOPSIS

A couple attempt to repair their long-distance relationship.

Film Overview:  ភពសុបិន / Dream Land(2015)

-Director: Steve Chen
-Screening Date: Feb-22-2025
-Show Time: 7:30 PM
-Duration: 1hr 30min
-Language: Khmer
-Subtitle: English
- Showing Location : Koh Sdach Primary School

✧ ENGLISH SYNOPSIS

Lida sells modern real estate developments to the new middle class in Phnom Penh. Her relationship with her boyfriend is deteriorating so she escapes to the beach, but finds there that the specters from the past haunt in sublime ways.

Film Overview:  ការពារឧក្រិដ្ឋជន / Jailbreak (2017)

-Director: Jimmy Henderson
-Screening Date: Feb-22-2025
-Show Time: 9:30 PM
-Duration:  1h 32min
-Language: Khmer
-Subtitle: English
- Showing Location : Koh Sdach Primary School

✧ ENGLISH SYNOPSIS

What started as a simple escort mission will soon turn to chaos as the prisoners of Koh Kla take over the prison grounds. A special task force gets trapped in prison and will have to fight their way out for survival, to protect a key witness.

Film Overview: Bonjour Le Monde (2019)

-Director: Anne-Lise Koelher, Eric Serre
-Screening Date: Feb-22-2025
-Show Time: 5:45 PM 
-Duration: 1hr 7min
-Language: French
-Subtitle: English
-Showing Location : Koh Sdach Primary School

✧ ENGLISH SYNOPSIS

A work where puppets, sculptures, painting and animation reinterpret Nature, to make us rediscover it as we have never seen it. 

Film Overview:  ឆ្ងាយដាច់អាល័យ / Further and Further Away (2022)

-Director: Ly Polen
-Screening Date: Feb-23-2025
-Show Time: 7:00 PM
-Duration:  24 min
-Language: Khmer
-Subtitle: English
-Showing Location :  Koh Sdach Primary School

✧ ENGLISH SYNOPSIS

Before their impending departure for the capital city, two siblings first must bid farewell to the place they called home, each in their own way.

Film Overview:  រាត្រីមួយក្រោយសង្គ្រាម/ One Evening After the War (1998)

-Director: Panh Rithy
-Screening Date: Feb-23-2025
-Show Time: 7:30 PM
-Duration:  1h 48 min
-Language: Khmer
-Subtitle: English
- Showing Location :  Koh Sdach Primary School

✧ ENGLISH SYNOPSIS

After the end of the Cambodian Civil War, people in Cambodia struggled in their return to their normal lives. Among them is a kick boxer Savannah (Narith Roeun). A survivor of the war, who lost most of his family to the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, he lives with his uncle in Phnom Penh. Savannah begins a romance with a 19-year-old bar girl, Srey Poeuv (Chea Lyda Chan). She is humiliated by her debts to the bar's owner, and is forced to keep working. Savannah wants to help Srey clear her debt, so he teams up with an ex-soldier and plans a crime that could net him some money.