TWO RECENT FILMS INCLUDING HIS SHORT FILM "CAMBODIA 2099"

Davy Chou is a Cambodian-French filmmaker born in 1983. He is the grandson of Van Chann, a leading producer of Cambodia in 1960s and 1970s. The screening of his two most recent films is accompanied by a talk.
The short film CAMBODIA 2099 (2014, 21 min) premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes 2014, and received the best prize at Curtas Vila do Conde 2014. On Phnom Penh’s Diamond Island, the country's pinnacle of modernity, two friends tell each other about the dreams they had the night before. (Foto)
The documentary GOLDEN SLUMBERS (2011, 100 min) resurrects the heyday of Cambodian cinema. Nearly 400 films were made in Cambodia between 1960 and 1975, only 30 of which survive today. The Khmer Rouge burnt them or allowed them to decay along with many of the country’s studios and cinemas. Most of those involved in the film industry became victims of the genocide