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Cambodia & the History of France: The Role of the Kingdom during the Great War
While Cambodia inaugurated the Phnom Penh War Memorial in 2023, in 1914 the first dispatches arriving in Phnom Penh from France requested that 4,500 Cambodians join the French war effort.

La Rédaction
5 hours ago3 min read


René Piot (1866–1934): The Painter Who Captured the Soul of Cambodian Dancers
C'est à l'Exposition coloniale nationale de Marseille, en 1922, que se noue l'épisode le plus saisissant de la carrière de René Piot. Dans le pavillon de l'Indochine, sur le boulevard Michelet, une troupe de danseuses du ballet royal cambodgien se produit devant un public fasciné.

Editorial team
5 hours ago8 min read


History, games and currency: the Sosoro Museum opens its treasures to Francophone youth
The Sosoro Museum publishes its Youth Activity Booklet in French — an illustrated, interactive guide that invites children to explore 2,000 years of Cambodia's economic and monetary history.

Partenaire Presse
5 hours ago2 min read


Khmer brilliance in the spotlight: Nou Sary, artist-in-residence at Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor
Stepping through the doors of the Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor is like entering a residence where cool marble, frangipani gardens, and Cambodia's golden light create a setting worthy of a Somerset Maugham novel. It is within these history-filled corridors that one of the most distinctive painters of contemporary Cambodia now resides: Nou Sary.

Editorial team
9 hours ago4 min read


Phnom Penh & Exhibition: DinArt — When the Khmer Soul Expresses Itself in Color
The Plantation Urban Resort & Spa is pleased to announce the exhibition of DinArt, a contemporary Cambodian artist, presented from May 31 to July 31, 2026 in its Phnom Penh setting. A meeting between hospitality excellence and the uniqueness of a body of work that reinvents a nation’s heritage.

Editorial team
10 hours ago3 min read


Culture & History: Norng Chan Phal, the mystery of the little boy from Cambodia’s S-21 prison
Norng Chan Phal was one of four surviving children found within the grounds of the S-21 prison after the Khmer Rouge abandoned the capital in 1979. Mr. Chan Phal and the other children were hiding under a pile of clothes behind the prison and were discovered by Vietnamese soldiers.

Christophe Gargiulo
1 day ago2 min read


Testifying so as not to forget: education about the Khmer Rouge genocide enters Cambodian classrooms
In a high school in Sa-ang, Kandal province, dozens of students recently experienced an extraordinary learning activity. Gathered for an educational forum dedicated to the history of Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979), they attended a screening of the documentary First Witness — a powerful film that gives voice to survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime. A rare initiative, but more necessary than ever.

Editorial team
1 day ago2 min read


In Pictures: “Lok Ta Pring Ka-ek” to Chase Away Evil Spirits and Invoke Rain
Chaque année au Cambodge se tient le festival de Lok Ta Pring Ka-ek dans le village de Boeung aux alentours de Phnom Penh. Il s'agit...

Editorial team
4 days ago1 min read


Archaeology: Cambodia, Land of Forgotten Prehistory
Along the Mekong River and in the caves of Battambang, Franco-Cambodian archaeologists are uncovering traces of human occupation dating back 600,000 years. This is the story of an investigation deep into the past.

Editorial team
4 days ago4 min read


Living Memory: In Prey Veng, Survivors of the Khmer Rouge Tell Their Story
Le silence s’installe lentement dans la salle du Centre de documentation de Prey Veng. À l’extérieur, la vie suit son cours — le bruit lointain des motos, la chaleur dense de l’après-midi cambodgien — mais ici, le temps semble suspendu.

Editorial team
4 days ago3 min read


The Khmer Enigma: The Lost Autochromes of Jules Gervais-Courtellemont
In September 1928, National Geographic published twenty-seven color photographs of a Cambodia almost unknown to the Western world. Signed by a French adventurer-photographer, a convert to Islam, companion of Pierre Loti, and pioneer of autochrome—these images resurface today with undiminished power. A dive into the lens of a forgotten visionary.

Bernard Cohen
4 days ago7 min read


Cambodian talents at Cannes 2026: When Promised Spaces opens a window to the world
Three Cambodian actors walk the Croisette for the world premiere of an event film selected at ACID 2026. A historic moment for Khmer cinema.

La Rédaction
5 days ago4 min read


Cambodia & History: Étienne Aymonier, discoverer and mediator of the Khmer and Cham worlds
At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, amid the turmoil of colonial conquests and the exploration of distant lands, a remarkable figure emerged, who was in turn a soldier, linguist, explorer and scholar: Étienne François Aymonier (1844-1929). A man of many talents, he was the first scientist to methodically survey the ruins and decipher the inscriptions of the ancient Khmer kingdom—now Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and southern Vietnam—and to study the little-known Cham civil

Editorial team
5 days ago4 min read


The Gallerist & Exposition : Luna Kol, Suspended Silence or Le ralenti comme un seuil
There are works that do not seek to convince. They impose themselves otherwise — through their density, their silence, the way they seem to hold back something essential on the verge of escaping. Luna Kol's canvases belong to this rare category.

Editorial team
6 days ago5 min read


CIFF 360 & Kep: Thanet Thorn, “Cambodian cinema has stories. What it still lacks are structures
Meeting with Thanet Thorn, producer at Tiny Films, on the sidelines of the CIFF 360 professional forum in Kep. Between clear-eyed awareness of the fragility of an emerging industry and an unwavering belief in the power of Khmer storytelling.

Editorial team
6 days ago3 min read


Phnom Penh & Exhibition: Memory in Bloom, Cham Rituals Reinvented by Kaeu Sreypeou
From May 21 to August 8, 2025, SNA Arts Management in Phnom Penh hosts Remembering, a poignant exhibition marking the first solo presentation of Cham artist Kaeu Sreypeou. Through a series of 18 acrylic paintings on canvas, the artist offers an intimate immersion into the collective memory and spiritual rituals of the Cham Muslim community in Cambodia.

Editorial team
6 days ago2 min read


CIFF 360 & Kep : Vinay Bharadwaj : Cinema in the Service of Art and the Ocean
With Beneath the Sea, presented in Kep as part of CIIF 360 and Art for Kep, director Vinay Bharadwaj delivers a film that is both aesthetic and committed, conceived to celebrate the beauty of the coastline while raising awareness about the fragility of the marine world.

Christophe Gargiulo
May 184 min read


CIFF 360 & Kep: Sarita Reth — "Kep Has Everything to Become Cambodia's Little Cannes"
Actress, producer, activist — meeting with an essential voice of Cambodian cinema: Sarita Reth. A familiar face on Khmer screens, she today embodies a new generation of professionals who no longer content themselves with playing the game, but intend to rewrite the rules. In front of the camera as much as behind it, on stage as much as in industry forums, Sarita carries a rare demand: that of a Cambodian cinema finally structured, fair, and recognized at its true value on the

Christophe Gargiulo
May 183 min read


CIFF 360 & KEP : At Knai Bang Chatt, A Collective Manifesto for Cambodian Cinema
Reunited within the CIFF 360 at the Knai Bang Chatt hotel in Kep, more than thirty professionals from Cambodian cinema spoke frankly about the structures to build, the rights to win, and the stories to invent.

Christophe Gargiulo
May 174 min read


CIFF 360 & Kep : Cambodian filmmaker weaving silences and hard-won freedoms
Scénariste, réalisatrice, proScreenwriter, director, producer — this Cambodian filmmaker has been weaving a singular body of work for nearly twenty years, between metaphorical silences and hard-won freedoms. Portrait of a voice that matters.

Christophe Gargiulo
May 174 min read


CIFF 360 à Kep : Opening of the Film Festival with Glamour and Joie de Vivre
Nearly a hundred guests gathered at Knai Bang Chatt to celebrate the launch of the CIFF 360 film festival, with a screening of the emblematic La Joie de Vivre by King Norodom Sihanouk, which set the perfect tone for the evening.

Editorial team
May 153 min read


CIFF 360 in Kep: Antoine Raab, "Authentic photography remains irreplaceable"
Photographer based in Phnom Penh for more than ten years, Antoine Raab presented last night a slideshow of his portraits made for the Cambodia International Film Festival on the occasion of CIFF 360, the festival’s decentralized edition which is setting up for the second time in Kep. Portrait of an artist who navigates lucidly through a sector in deep transformation.

Editorial team
May 153 min read


CIFF 360 in Kep : Cédric Eloy, "Put down your phone and see the world differently"
Cédric Eloy, director of the Cambodia International Film Festival, has made it his mission to take cinema beyond Phnom Penh's air-conditioned screening rooms and bring it to places where stories hit differently. We met him in Kep, by the sea, for the second edition of CIFF 360.

Editorial team
May 153 min read


CIFF 360 : A Rare Screening of Cambodian Cinema Pioneer Uong Kan Thouk's The Time to Cry at Kep
Thursday afternoon, around fifty spectators gathered at Kep West, in the premises of the former Sailin Club, as part of CIFF 360 for a rare and precious screening: The Time to Cry (Pel Del Trov Zum), directed by Uong Kan Thouk, one of the pioneering figures of Cambodian cinema in the 1970s.

Editorial team
May 143 min read
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