EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a fun first clip for Venice Film Festival coming-of-age drama White Building, which will get its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The Cambodian title, which will unspoo…
, which will get its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
The Cambodian title, which will unspool in the Horizons strand, marks the feature debut of shorts director Kavich Neang. Cambodian cinema is having a moment in the sun this year at Venice with another Cambodian film, sci-fi featureis naturalistic drama that follows 20-year-old Samnang and his group of friends in the eponymous White Building, a landmark tenement housing block in Phnom Penh. In this fast-changing city, the three boys practice their dance routine dreaming of TV talent contests while their parents lead a traditional lifestyle, all of them living in harmony. But the White Building is to be demolished.
Starring are Piseth Chhun, Sithan Hout, Sokha Uk, Chinnaro Soem, Sovann Tho, Jany Min, Chandalin Y. Screenplay comes from Neang and Daniel Mattes.Producers are Anti-Archive , Apsara Films , Xstream Pictures , Kongchak Pictures , Rotha Moeng, Brandon Hashimoto. Les Films du Losange is handling sales. Neang said: “Phnom Penh seems to change every day, but our memories remain. My family’s 2017 eviction from the White Building, an historic apartment block, made way for new casino developments. Like my parents’ generation, which suffered through Cambodia’s troubled past, my generation now carries the traumas of the present. Young people, like my film’s protagonist, Samnang, dream of something better in the new Cambodia.
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