Short Films

All admissions are FREE and NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
Seats will be allocated on a FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED BASIS.

Bophana Center

25 February 2023 | Saturday | 2:00 – 3:30 pm
No. 64, Street 200, Phnom Penh

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  • UNE SOEUR (ALL ABOUT WOMEN)
    Women’s rights | 2019 | Dutch w/English Subtitles | 17 minutes
    A night. A car. Alie is in danger. To get by she must make the most important phone call of her life.

  • TUA INGUGU (WATER EYES)
    Environment | Dutch w/English Subtitles | 8 minutes
    A poetic movie to denounce water pollution and the challenging prospects for the future of both indigenous people and city folks.

  • THERMOSTAT 6
    Climate change | Drama, Animation 2D | French w/English Subtitles | 04:48 minutes
    Diane can’t ignore anymore the leak coming from the ceiling above the family diner.

  • RECIT DE SOI (ONESELF STORY)
    LGBTQIA+ | Animation | French w/English Subtitles | 05 minutes
    While non-binary representations are rare, Lou talks about their relationship to gender, clothes, and other markers.

  • QURUT – RECIPE OF A POSSIBLE EXTINCT FOOD
    Climate change | Comedy, Documentary | English Subtitles | 05 minutes
    Quruti, is one of the most popular meals in entire Afghanistan and this documentary shows that for some years people have been making less and less Quruti as they struggle to feed their animals because the mountain pastures have dried up.

  • PRÉCIEUX (PRECIOUS)
    Animation | French w/English Subtitles | 14 minutes
    Julie doesn’t fit in at her school. This changes when Emile, an autistic child, joins the class.

  • KOKOTA: THE ISLET OF HOPE
    Environment | English & Swahili w/English Subtitles | 29 minutes
    This short, 30 minutes documentary introduces viewers to the resilient people living on the front lines of climate change and explores how these unlikely heroes have managed to innovatively adapt to a warming climate while reforesting their island.

  • CARFUCKERS
    Climate change, LGBTQIA+ | Comedy | German w/English Subtitles | 02 minutes
    During a nocturnal car drive in search of sex, the protagonist meets a trans prostitute. But instead of releasing him from his desires, she informs him together with a leather fetish boy about his irresponsibility regarding climate change.

  • DA YIE (GOOD NIGHT)
    Children’s rights | Akan w/English Subtitles | 20 minutes
    Young Matilda and Prince are taken on a life-changing trip by a stranger. Kids, gangsters and Ghana’s vibrant coast as you’ve never seen them.

Hops Craft Beer Garden & Restaurant

26 February 2023 | Sunday | 6:00 – 7:30 pm
No. 17, Street 228, Phnom Penh

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  • A SUNNY DAY
    Climate change | No dialogue | 10 minutes
    In a distant and near future, this short film follows a man through scenes of his daily life and how devastating the effects of climate change are on humans and nature.

  • DON’T WORRY
    Climate change | No w/English Subtitles | 2 minutes
    A young woman falls off a boat while partying, injuring her foot. Blood starts to seep into the water, and sombre music forebodes an ill fate.

  • FLESH
    Climate change | Portuguese w/English Subtitles | 2 minutes
    Five women, each in a different stage of their life, share experiences about their relationships to their bodies and how others perceive them in this powerfully intimate mixed-media animated documentary from Camila Kater.

  • GEO-ENGINEERING
    Climate change | No dialogue | 2 minutes
    Around the world, giant machines stuck in endless loops are fighting the symptoms of climate change by refreezing the polar ice, plugging holes in the cloud cover, and pushing back deserts.

  • HUNGRY SEAGULL – DEAFENING SILENCE
    Documentary | No dialogue | 6 minutes
    With the overfishing of offshore fish and the pollution of the marine environment, seagulls can catch fewer and fewer small fish and this documentary follows a new seagull family on their daily struggle to protect and feed the new born.

  • IN ONE DRAG
    Animation | No dialogue | 3 minutes
    It’s late in the evening. A man leaves a building, lights a cigarette and smokes it in one drag. He casually flicks the stub away – everything as always. Only this time… all the cigarette butts in the city become alive.

  • OLMO
    Climate Change | Dutch w/English Subtitles | 8 minutes
    Olmo and his grandpa leave for a short tour instead of going to school, searching for an old tree. A tour down memory lane.

  • TANT DE FORETS
    Climate Change | Frenchw/English Subtitles | 3 minutes
    The short film is based on a poem of Jacques Prévert. The poem speaks of the irony of the fact that newspaper warn us about deforestation although they are made of paper themselves.

  • THE EPHEMERAL
    LGBTQIA+ | Portuguese w/English Subtitles | 20 minutes
    Two strangers meet in a subway car. Both bring their past with them. Both look from their present. Both will determine their future in that fleeting, and ephemeral, vital journey that brings them together briefly.