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Stories Set in Phnom Penh
At the junction of the Mekong and Tonle Sap, Phnom Penh is a low capital of boulevards, markets and monastery compounds. The Khmer Rouge emptied the city in 1975 and turned a school into the Tuol Sleng prison, which is why stories here face memory, evidence and return. S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine and White Building sit on its shelf. Open Phnom Penh on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 1 book and 6 movies set in Phnom Penh.
S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
Documentary of the S-21 genocide prison in Phnom Penh with interviews of prisoners and guards. On the search for reasons why this could have happened.
Same Same But Different
Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom Penh and Ben a young German student traveling to Cambodia on a post…
Holly
Shot on location in Cambodia including many scenes in actual brothels in the notorious red light district of Phnom Penh HOLLY is a captivating touching and emotional experience. Patrick an American card shark and dealer…
White Building
SAMNANG 20 faces the demolition of his lifelong home in Phnom Penh and the pressures from family friends and neighbors which arise and intersect in this moment of sudden change.
Lost Boys
Lost Boys tells the true undisguised story of what happened ten years ago after group of friends continued their eternal afterparty following the success of their movie premiere Reindeerspotting: Escape From Santaland…
The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the…
Turn Left Turn Right
Kanitha a young free-spirited Cambodian woman in her 20s lives in modern-day Phnom Penh working multiple jobs and choosing to live how she pleases. However her daydreaming creates tension with her traditional mother who…
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