Sometimes, in Cambodia, the jingling sound of a xylophone wakes you up at an ungodly hour. These soft melody lines act as a sinister harbinger of what’s about to come: the mournful chants of a funeral.
If you look really hard, you’ll find remnants of the golden rock ‘n’ roll era, when Cambodia was called “the pearl of Southeast Asia”. In the art city of Battambang, in the northwest, there is a remaining silent witness of the 1960s.
The WWF wants to reintroduce the tiger in Cambodia. But that’s easier said than done. Even in so-called protected nature reserves, illegal logging and hunting are going on.
Muslims are under threat in Buddhist Myanmar. Racist and extreme-nationalist monks spread hate speech against them and they even encourage violence.
Choreographer Prumsodun Ok adds a surprisingly contemporary element to the classical Apsara dance: a touch of gay-eroticism.
On December 15, 2012, Laotian activist Sombath Somphone was abducted in Vientiane. His wife recalls the events of her husband’s disappearance.
In Cambodia valuable and protected wood is logged illegally on a huge scale. I went deep into the Cambodian woods in search of the roots of this problem.
This documentary shows an honest portrait of Cambodian youngsters, creating a circus performance together with the Belgian artist Lennert Vandenbroeck – who thus discovers this magical developing country.
My report about Eang and Yun, two women who fell in love in the 1970’s during the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.
Going upstream the Mekong river, starting in the delta in Vietnam. Along the way I want to talk to people who need the river to make their living.
Henry lives in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He likes to dress up like a woman. His alter ego, Rebecca, performs as a drag queen in gay bar Blue Chilli.
Even today’s youth has traumas of the Khmer Rouge. They cannot discuss these traumas with family or friends, but theater therapy helps.
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