Cambodia's 2022 Oscar entry: Trailer for 'White Building'

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Cambodia's 2022 Oscar entry: Trailer for 'White Building'

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Here's a link to the first trailer for Cambodia's entry in the 2022 Oscar film awards. It's built around the drama of the pressured residents of the White Building. Looks very promising and it's in Khmer with subtitles.
The drama is a debut feature from Kavich Neang, and follows 20-year-old Samnang and his group of friends in a landmark tenement housing block in Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, called White Building. The boys harbour dreams of dancing on television talent contests, while their parents lead more traditional lives. When the White Building faces demolition, the families in the block are hit with the brutal realities of gentrification in modern Cambodia.
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More on this in the Anti-Achive thread here: post358953.html#p358953
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16 mins ago - BREAKING NEWS
Cambodian film ‘White Building’ bags awards in Venice Film Festival
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The cast and director of the movie at the Venice Film Festival. Swift News photo

‘White Building’, a film selected as Cambodia’s entry for the international feature film category for the 2022 Academy Awards, won two awards at the 78th Annual Venice Film Festival.

The film won the Best Film and Best Actor Awards at the Venice Film Festival. The Best Actor Award went to Piseth Chun, who plays the protagonist of the film.

The film is an achievement for the Director, Kavich Neang, and the entire cast and crew. It is an example of how Cambodia can join other countries on the international stage in the film and movie industry. The entire film and its success were made possible by the dedication and hard work of the film cast and crew and the director.

‘White Film’ is scheduled to be premiered in France in December.
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I met Kavich Neang a few years ago at the premiere for "Where I Go" at the cinema in Sorya. It was a very sad film. Kavich actually grew up in the White Building himself. It's great to see him doing so well.

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The trailer and available clips online look really cool. Definitely looking forward to watching the full length.
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Chhun Piseth, Cambodian Boy-Band Dancer, Wins Int’l Award in Venice
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| Wed Sep 15, 2021 4:58 pm
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Chhun Piseth, left, in a still from the White Building movie which was screened at the Venice film festival last week. (Supplied)

Chhun Piseth says he still hasn’t had the chance to watch all of the White Building, a new Cambodian film for which he won the Orizzonti award for best actor at the Venice Film Festival this month.

The movie, which has yet to be publicly released, tells the story of a young man trying to make it as a dancer while his family faces eviction from the White Building — a dilapidated but historical Phnom Penh landmark that was controversially demolished in 2017, and is now slated to become the Naga 3 casino.

On September 11, Piseth was named winner of the Orizzonti best actor award, an honor he hopes will help him find more opportunities in the Cambodian film industry and allow him to expand into new artistic territories.

“I am so delighted and it means so much to me,” Piseth said this week. “Also to my director and crew, they are so proud of me that I was selected. … I am so happy to be a part of this achievement.”

He said he was not able to fly out to Venice for the occasion, due to personal and health reasons, so he hopes to watch the final film alongside the Cambodian public when theaters reopen.
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Film Review:
VENICE 2021: White Building ‘Bodeng Sar’
Film Festival Review Venice
Written By Jak Luke Sharp

Director Kavich Neang's White Building is a film that perfectly, and quite hauntingly, encapsulates the feeling of isolation and loneliness. Set in the backdrop of a financially suffocated neighbourhood of Cambodia, Neang's film follows the harsh realities of capitalism, gentrification, and the stubbornness of family bonds.

This is a feature that overflows with life and chaos. It finds the central character amid this helpless and isolated world yet surrounded by life and warmth. This oxymoronic thematic relationship crafts a strong and embedding bond for the feature to play out. Said mood and thematics are brought tenderly forward by the performances, specifically lead Piseth Chhun, who slowly but surely crafts a tender performance of isolation and fear. The latter is a multifaceted and nuanced angle that writer-director Kavich Neang and co-writer Daniel Mattes bring about in varied and dynamic screenplay, that aforementioned touches on quite a few socio-political undertones and consistent overtones.

These avenues of flavour give Chhun a great deal of material to flourish and prosper in what is a slightly stoic curation of this character but one that bubbles away with internal anguish in reflection of the plot. Not necessarily exploding but undeniably raising the emotive bar when the time comes. The material, on the whole, comes across as incredibly allegorical – though not necessarily an allegory for depression or such a feeling of grief. Nevertheless, there is no doubt a more profound and poignant discussion present on despair and tribulation within this community and the political agenda occurring in Cambodia.

Without undercutting or undermining the feature, Kavich Neang's White Building is a beautiful, foreboding surprise. Shot with outstanding intimate photography from Douglas Seok that reaffirms the brooding nature of proceedings and a thoughtful and spaced edit from Félix Rehm that allows the themes and character to meditate with intent – crafting a delightfully stoic and poignant piece of cinema.
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Cambodian Oscar submission ‘White Building’ lands North America deal (exclusive)
By Melanie Goodfellow 2 November 2021

Brooklyn-based arthouse distributor KimStim has acquired North American rights for Cambodian Oscar submission White Building from French sales company Les Film du Losange.

Set against the backdrop of Phnom Penh’s real-life iconic White Building housing project and its demolition in 2017, is the fiction feature debut of Cambodian filmmaker Kavich Neang.

It stars Piseth Chhun as a young dancer and resident, whose life is turned upside-down by the destruction of his long-time home and its community.

The film world premiered in the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons section, where Piseth Chhun won best actor. It has since screened at BFI London, Hong Kong, and Busan.

“We were really taken with Neang’s vibrant, beautiful and heartfelt portrait of the rapidly changing face of Phnom Penh. His sensitivity and tenderness towards his characters facing displacement is very moving and also important,” notes KimStim co-president Ian Stimler.

The film is produced by Cambodia’s Anti-Archive, with Davy Chou as producer. Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke’s Xstream Pictures came on board, as did French company Apsara films, led by co-delegate producer Marine Arrighi de Casanova.

KimStim is planning a North American theatrical release in 2022. Its 2021 releases have included Maria Sødahl’s Hope, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To The Ends of The Earth, Bruno Dumont’s Joan of Arc and Suzanne Lindon’s debut feature Spring Blossom.
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They gave the academy award to White Helmets ISIS terrorists. Who couldn't accept it because the US State Department would not grant them a visa. But don't fret American friends, I feel the same way being Swedish. We constantly award the Nobel Peace Prize to war criminals.
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donner-kruger wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 1:45 am White Helmets ISIS terrorists
How are White Helmets ISIS? They are volunteers who work in medical evacuation. Why are you bringing your conspiracy theories into this thread about a promising young Cambodian director?
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