20 Short Films you shouldn’t miss at the 11th Cambodia International Film Festival (Part 2)

By Asian Film Festival on June 26, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

We continue with our list of short films you shouldn’t miss at the 11th Cambodia International Film Festival which will take place from June 28 until July 3 (2022) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

To see the first part of this article please go: HERE

– Selected Shorts –

**Purple Night** by Josh Kim – South Korea | 2020 – 5 minutes
**Section**: International Short Films

Purple Night dives you into the male K-pop dancing culture and how it helps them express their identity. (CambodiaIFF 2022)

**Sama-Sama** by Roman Marcus Abad – Philippines | 2020 – 3 minutes
**Section**: CIFF for Kids

An animated story about a rabbit and a turtle’s journey to watch a hot air balloon festival. Will they make it in time or miss the festival? (CambodiaIFF 2022)

Trailer:

**Sea Within A Sea** by Danech San – Cambodia | 2021 – 24 minutes
**Section**: Documentaries | Beautiful Planet

On Koh Sdach, a local diver examines coral reefs and seahorse populations while exploring the environmental impacts of his village’s commercial development and growing fishing industry. (CambodiaIFF 2022)

Trailer:

**Side By Side** by Polen Ly – Cambodia | 2020 – 21 minutes
**Section**: Documentaries | Glimpse of Cambodia

Through simple daily routines in the chaining rhythm of nature, an elder indigenous couple revealed the truth of their marriage story during the Cambodian genocide to their granddaughter. (CambodiaIFF 2022)

Screening:
July 1, 2022 | Friday | Bophana Center | 7:30 pm

Trailer:

**Sound of the Night** by Chanrado Sok, Kongkea Vann – Cambodia | 2021 – 20 minutes
**Section**: Cambodia in Shorts

Vibol and his cousin Kea sell noodles on a motorized cart every night on the streets of Phnom Penh. They often face troublesome threats from gangsters and thieves. The brothers seek a safer future as the city grows around them. (CambodiaIFF 2022)

Trailer:

**Sunrise in My Mind** by Danech San – Cambodia | 2020 – 14 minutes
**Section**: Cambodia in Shorts

A young woman working late at night at a beauty salon gives into her restrained interest in a young man who spends his evenings driving Phnom Penh’s streets by motorbike as a delivery man. (CambodiaIFF 2022)

Trailer:

**The Last Breath of The Tonle Sap** by Thomas Cristofoletti, Robin Narciso
Cambodia, Italy | 2022 – 11 minutes – **Section**: Documentaries | Beautiful Planet

The story of Piseth (Fisherman) and his family, who live on the edge of the Tonle Sap, a lake that was once considered an ideal home but the fish stock continues to plummet. (CambodiaIFF 2022)

**The River** by Vie Nuon – USA | 2020 – 12 minutes
**Section**: Cambodia in Shorts

A boy and his nanny spend the morning at the river. The boy has a spiritual encounter, and the profound change he experiences, colors his world in new ways, as he navigates a surreality of family, sickness, and death. (CambodiaIFF 2022)

**Tooly** by Karla Hart – Australia | 2021 – 10 minutes
**Section**: International Short Films

A young indigenous girl struggling to engage with her culture learns of Tooly, the sign of an impending death in the family. (CambodiaIFF 2022)

**Uberfrog** by Tuomas Kurtakko – Finland | 2020 – 12 minutes
**Section**: CIFF for Kids

When a chase for a delicious dragonfly goes awry, a frog finds himself on a journey towards higher levels of amphibian consciousness, ultimately leading him down the rabbit hole of facing his worst fears. (CambodiaIFF 2022)

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