The Gate (2014)

The story is set in Cambodia in the years following WWI. Evil Count Mazovia (Roy D'Arcy) has come into possession of the secret methods by which men can be transformed into walking zombies and uses these unholy powers to create a race of slave laborers. An expedition is sent to the ruins of Angkor Wat, in hopes of ending Mazovia's activities once and for all. Unfortunately, Armand (Dean Jagger), one of the members of the expedition, has his own agenda.

이디오피아의 공산군 점령지역에서 기아 난민 구호사업을 하는 영국인 의사 닉 칼라한 (클라이브 오웬 분)은 영국 기아 돕기 재단의 자선 파티장에 나타나 자선 사업가들의 위선을 질타하며 그들의 자각과 반성을 촉구한다. 재단 이사장의 며느리인 사라 조르단 (안젤리나 졸리 분)은 닉이 파티장에 데려온 이디오피아 소년의 참혹한 몰골에 충격을 받고는 자신의 저금을 털어 구호 물자를 구입하여 닉이 활동하는 이디오피아 캠프를 찾아간다. 그리곤 영국으로 돌아온 사라는 UN 산하 국제 난민 고등 판문 위원회 (UNHCR)에서 일하게 된다. 남편 헨리와 불화에 시달리던 사라는 닉의 동료로부터 연락을 받는다. 닉이 크메르 루즈 치하의 캄보디아에 난민 캠프를 열었는데 UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) 의 명의를 이용, 구호물자 수송을 도와 달라는 것이었다. 그러자 그녀는 직접 물자를 수송하면서 캄보디아에 있는 닉을 다시 만나게 되고 마침내 둘은 운명적인 사랑에 빠진다. 그러나 닉은 그와 함께 하면 사라마저 위험하다며 그녀를 영국으로 다시 돌려 보낸다. 그러던 중, 닉이 체첸에서 활동하다가 반군에게 납치됐다는 소식을 듣고는 다시 죽음을 무릅 쓴 채 체첸으로 향하는데...

피터는 증기기관 항해선의 일등 항해사다. 그는 항해 도중 폭풍을 만나자 배가 침몰할 줄 알고 비겁하게 승객들이 탄 배를 포기한다. 그러나 배는 천신만고 끝에 침몰을 면하게 된다. 불명예의 멍에를 진 피터는 자신의 명예를 되찾기 위해서 노력하게 된다. 지도에도 없는 동양의 한 원주민들에게 다이너마이트를 배달하는 계약을 하게 된 것이다. 그러던 중 그는 억압받고 있는 마을 원주민들의 편에 서게 되어, 흉악한 유럽인 악당들과 맞서 싸운다. 마침내 스스로 죽을 결심을 하고 싸움에 휘말려든 피터는 결국 원주민 민족의 영웅이 되는데... - ebs 일요시네마 작품해설 20세기 모더니즘의 선구자라 불리는 조셉 콘래드의 소설을 원작으로 완성된 작품이다. 드넓은 세계와 미지의 인생에 대한 동경으로 선원을 지원한 청년 짐이 운행 중에 풍랑을 만나 혼란 끝에 승객을 버리고 탈출한다. 얼마 후 배가 침몰하지 않았음이 밝혀지고, 짐은 법적 처벌과 함께 세간의 도덕적 비난에 시달린다. 선원 자격을 박탈당한 짐은 동남아 각지를 떠돌다 어느 오지 마을에 정착해 새로운 인생을 시작하게 되는 내용. 콘래드는 이 작품에서 성격적 견고성을 결하고 있을 뿐 아니라 난해할 정도로 복잡하며 인격적 분열까지 보이는 현대인의 전형을 훌륭하게 그려냈다. 자신의 꿈과 이상이 현실에서 실현될 수 없음을 깨닫고 절망하는 짐은 서구 사회의 급격한 변화와 심각한 정신적 위기를 대변한다. 현대적 인물의 복잡한 내면을 표현하기 위해서 이야기 속에 다양한 시점과 시간을 도입함으로써 재래 기법의 한계를 극복하고 짐의 행위 속에 개재된 도덕적 의미의 불확실성에 대한 독자의 인식을 부단히 일깨운다. - ebs 일요시네마

Mia, a beautiful and successful Paris based photographer, bored by her bourgeois existence, flies to Cambodia to surprise her timber trader husband Xavier. But her hope for a romantic welcome are dashed when she spies her husband in a brothel having sex with an eleven year-old, Srey. Mia, her world turned upside down, resolves to rescue Srey and return her to the remote village from where she was abducted.

Between 1975 and 1979, at least 250,000 Cambodian women were forced into marriages by the Khmer Rouge. Sochan was one of them. At the age of 16, she was forced to marry a soldier who raped her. After 30 years of silence, Sochan decided to bring her case to the international tribunal set up to try former Khmer Rouge leaders.

After having fled Pol Pot, Rithy Panh, a 15 year old Cambodian finds refuge at the Mairut camp in Thailand, in 1979. Ten years later, now a filmmaker, he returns to the camps to film the daily life of this threatened people. The peoples he meets, eaten away by inactivity, insecutity and the fear of being forgotten, have been waiting for a possible return to Cambodia.

In a tale of drama and adventure, young journalist Andy Cameron (Robert Walker) has to get into Cambodia (it is assumed this is during the genocidal reign of Pol Pot). Cameron has to smuggle out his girlfriend Mieng (Nit Alisa) before she is killed (along with the other two million Cambodians), but he cannot manage this alone. He enlists the aid of an American Vietnam vet and the help of a few Khmer men. Eventually, Cameron makes his way into Cambodia where he encounters many dangers, some human and some inhuman.

In okay bye-bye, so named for what Cambodian children shouted to the U.S. ambassador in 1975 as he took the last helicopter out of Phnom Phenh in advance of the Khmer Rouge, Rebecca Baron explores the relationship of history to memory. She questions whether, "image and memory can occupy the same space." Building on excerpts from letters, found super-8 footage of an unidentified Cambodian man, iconographic photographs from the Vietnam War and other partial images, Baron combines epistolary narrative, memoir, journalism, and official histories to question whether something as monumental as the genocidal slaughter of Cambodians during the Pol Pot regime can be examined effectively with traditional methodologies.

Based upon documentation of forced confessions made during the Khmer Rouge era in Cambodia, this film reconstructs the relationship of a young woman, Hout Bophana, and Ly Sitha before they were tortured in executed in 1977.

WHO KILLED CHEA VICHEA? is a highly charged murder mystery, a political thriller, and a documentary like no other. In 2004, Cambodian union president Chea Vichea was assassinated in broad daylight at a newsstand in Phnom Penh. As international pressure mounted, two men were swiftly arrested and convicted of the crime, each sentenced to twenty years in prison. Filmmaker Bradley Cox’s five-year investigation reveals an elaborate cover-up that reaches the highest echelons of Cambodian society. Winner of a 2011 Peabody Award among many other honors and banned by the Cambodian government, WHO KILLED CHEA VICHEA? uncovers the face of dictatorship behind the mask of democracy.

A powerful feature documentary about child sexploitation, an epidemic happening in every country around the world. Filmed over a four year period, REDLIGHT focuses on the personal stories of young Cambodian victims and two remarkable advocates for change: grass-roots activist Somaly Mam and politician Mu Sochua. Using gritty footage smuggled out of brothels and harrowing testimonials, REDLIGHT follows the plight of several current and former child sex slaves. Some are trying to regain entry into Cambodian society to find some semblance of normality after their horrific experiences. Other stories highlight the plight of victims who are attempting to bring the perpetrators to justice. Their torturous yet ultimately heroic battles to find witnesses and take brothel owners to court are dramatically brought to life in this topical and moving feature documentary.

Over three million Cambodians died in the genocide between 1975 and 1979. The Khmer Rouge’s reign of terror also decimated a homegrown film industry that had flourished since 1960: movie theaters were bombed, film prints were destroyed and artists were executed. In Golden Slumbers, French-Cambodian filmmaker Davy Chou mourns this loss of lives and culture, but balances the somber material with a playfulness that honors the lush melodramas and mythic adventures of the glory years.

A poor, rural Cambodian family slowly disintegrates during the cycle of a single rice crop in this moving, and beautifully photographed European drama adapted from a novel by Shahnon Ahmad. Pouev, his wife Om, and his seven children, live in a small rural village in Cambodia. Their whole precarious life depends upon the success of their rice crop. Both husband and wife are worried, but for different reasons. Pouev is concerned because their acreage is shrinking. Om worries about Pouev; what would happen to her and the children if he died or was injured? Her worst fear is manifest after Pouev steps upon a poisoned thorn and dies. Om finds herself heavily burdened with the responsibilities of maintaining the crop and caring for seven youngsters. She suffers paranoia from worrying about whether the children are doing their share and the other villagers lock her up leaving eldest daughter Sokha to bring in the crop.

On one of his last trips before retirement, a plane of an illegal gunrunner in Vietnam is shot down where he hooks up Annie Belle, a humanitarian rebel.

A military group led by Henry Silva and Woody Strode are bound by their honor, to execute their orders to kill as many enemies as possible.

After seeing his parents and grandmother killed by the Vietnamese, a 12 year old Khmer boy flees with his baby sister in an attempt to reach safety in Thailand. On the way he befriends a group of Khmer fighters.

Set in the newly-pacified Phnom Penh, this film is about the return to civilian life of Cambodian soldiers.

Shickman, the film’s central subject, has been living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for 8 years along with his baby’s mama, Saran. He is the soul provider of the pair and earns his meager living by reading tarot cards street side. Saran is Cambodian, drinks often, was once married to a man of which she had several kids with (all but one are in foster care). Aside from having to contend with each other, the two must also be weary of the human vultures that eye their daughters with hopes of turning a profit on the black market. Surely, the future for these people are a bleak one.

In a small village, Nhi comes across a Snake Immortal and falls in love with him. She becomes pregnant by the snake, but does not tell her husband. When he discovers the truth, he kills both Nhi and the Snake Immortal. One of the small snakes escapes from Nhi's abdomen, and is brought up by another immortal. Slowly the snake grows up to be a beautiful woman, who sets out to develop another relationship.