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FO Cambodia / Happy Ending (Short, Cambodia/USA, w/ Q&A) + Meeting with Pol Pot (Cambodia)
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FO Cambodia / Happy Ending (Short, Cambodia/USA, w/ Q&A) + Meeting with Pol Pot (Cambodia)

FO Cambodia / Happy Ending (Short, Cambodia/USA, w/ Q&A) + Meeting with Pol Pot (Cambodia)

11/17/2024
Sun 2:00 PM
The Culver Theater - Auditorium 6
9500 Culver Blvd, Culver City
from $10.00

1) Happy Ending

Genre: Drama

Country: USA & Cambodia

Year: 2023

Duration: 17 mins

Director: ELODIE YUNG

Language(s): English

Subtitles: English

Producer: ELODIE YUNG, JONATHAN HOWARD, JASON McLAGAN, MATTHEW KEENE SMITH, MARIE JAMORA

Principal Cast: JASMINE SIM, MARTHA MILLAN, KRISTA MORIN

Synopsis

Like thousands of Asian women seeking a better life for their family, Chenda leaves Cambodia to work in a massage parlor in America. Isolated and without resources, she learns the hard way that her paycheck implies more than a simple massage. But Chenda carries a dark secret that she only shares with her doll... Happy Ending is a neo-noir movie that explores the somber world of an illicit massage parlor through the eyes of a young female immigrant already struggling with grief. How will she react when she is pushed to the brink? Her story is one of revenge. Only because fiction, less brutal than real life, allows us to empower our anti-heroin, offering her a happier closure than reality does.

2) Meeting with Pol Pot

Genre: Drama

Country: France - Cambodia - Taïwan - Qatar - Turkey

Year: 2024

Duration: 112 mins

Director: Rithy Panh

Language(s): French and Cambodian

Subtitles: English

Producer: Catherine Dussart, Rithy Panh, Justine O., Roger Huang, Fatma Hassan Alremaihi, Hanaa Issa, Mehmet Zahid Sobaci, Muhammed Ziyad Varol, Mirsad Purivatra, Jovan Marjanović, Georges-Marc Benamou

Principal Cast: Irène Jacob, Grégoire Colin, Cyril Guei, Bunhok Lim, Somaline Mao

Synopsis

Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) - 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime’s leader, Pol Pot. The country seems ideal. But behind the

Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country. The regime is looking for culprits, secretly carrying out a large scale genocide. Under the eyes of the journalists, the beautiful picture cracks, revealing the horror. Their journey progressively turns into a nightmare. Freely inspired by journalist Elizabeth Becker’s account in When The War Was Over.

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FO Cambodia / Happy Ending (Short, Cambodia/USA, w/ Q&A) + Meeting with Pol Pot (Cambodia)
The Culver Theater - Auditorium 6
11/17/2024
Sun 2:00 PM
The Culver Theater - Auditorium 6
9500 Culver Blvd, Culver City
from $10.00

Asian World Film Festival

The Asian World Film Festival (AWFF), founded by Kyrgyz public figure Sadyk Sher-Niyaz and overseen by Executive & Program Director Georges N. Chamchoum, brings the very best of a broad selection of Asian World cinema to Los Angeles to draw greater recognition to the region's wealth of filmmakers and strengthen ties between the Asian and Hollywood film industries. Uniting through cross-cultural collaboration, the Festival champions films from over 50 countries across Asia, spanning from Turkey to Japan and from Russia to India and South-East Asia. The Festival is unique in that it predominantly screens Oscar and Golden Globe submissions for Best International Feature Film and Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language respectively. All films that participate in the Festival will have a unique chance to be guided through the challenging awards season and showcased to members of the Motion Picture Academy, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and all Guilds for enhanced exposure, media attention and awards consideration. AWFF is a non-profit organization under Aitysh USA.

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