Compared to James Brown and Wilson Pickett, Liev Tuk was the soul voice of Cambodia's golden age. Only a few songs and a handful of images survive

Vine-woven masks, panels mixing forest and plastic, brass seeds: a walk through Khvay Samnang’s exhibition “Spirit, Body, and Land” at the Institut français du Cambodge gallery in Phnom Penh, until 26 September 2026, free admission.

There exists, at the bar, a hierarchy more sacred than age, money or tolerance: seniority. Whoever got here first is right. Bernard knows this. Which is why Kevin’s arrival was a declaration of war.

: In Andong Russey, Kampong Chhnang, potters have been building jars without a wheel for over a thousand years. Veranda Pottery keeps that skill alive in Phnom Penh.

Dirty Paws: sixty dogs, five cats and a café coming

Over 70 people at the SOSORO Museum for Colin Grafton’s book on Cambodia from 1972 to 1975, a photographer who left ten days before the Khmer Rouge

At Angkor Thom, the Terrace of the Elephants has become one of the favourite spots for Cambodian couples to shoot their engagement and pre-wedding photos. Each late afternoon, couples, make-up artists and photography teams gather there, with centuries-old temples as a backdrop.

The Princess Buppha Devi Dance School presents “The Coronation of Jayavarman VII” on Thursday 24 and Friday 25 September 2026, at 7 p.m., on the outdoor stage of the Institut français du Cambodge. Created for the Golden (R)Age festival in June, the ballet retells the future king’s victory over the Cham, blending Khmer classical dance, lakhaon khaol and bokator.

His bar had closed. Three weeks — just long enough for Sophea to repaint and swap out the fan that had squeaked since 2008. A man without his stool is a man without a country. So when some vague acquaintance mentioned a place that was “quiet, cheap, far from the Kevins,” Bernard heard paradise and said yes before he looked at a map.

Mike Flereau Lumene didn't grow up with many role models. Dance helped him stay on his feet. Today, through MNT Studio Dance, he helps local young people find their own balance. Nicolas Sok turned his story into a documentary, Danser pour exister (Dancing to Exist), slated for 2026. Through portraits, local roots, and solidarity, the film shows what really happens behind the doors of a dance studio.

From 29 August to 30 September, the gallery at Rosewood Phnom Penh is showing "Roots of the Village", an exhibition of paintings and ceramics by Dina Chhan devoted to rural life in Cambodia.

Née à Marseille en 1894, morte à Paris en 1989, Alix Aymé a passé plus de vingt ans en Asie. Elle a enseigné à l'École des Beaux-Arts de Hanoï, relancé l'art de la laque vietnamienne et décoré le Palais royal de Luang Prabang. Entre le Mékong et les temples d'Angkor, elle a aussi peint le Cambodge. Ses œuvres sont aujourd'hui au Louvre.

He never got a statue, or a street named after him. Yet among vinyl collectors around the world, one name keeps resurfacing whenever the conversation turns to Cambodian rock of the 1960s and '70s: Yol Aularong. Far from the sentimental ballads that made stars of Sinn Sisamouth or Ros Serey Sothea, this fiery artist forged a style all his own — biting, ironic, almost punk before its time. His story, largely left in the shadows, deserves to be told.

For the fifth year running, the Forum de rentrée brings together several hundred families, newcomers and long-time residents in Phnom Penh, all looking to get informed, connect, and ease into the 2026-2027 season. Save the date: Saturday, September 12, from 9am to 2pm, in the gardens of the Institut Français du Cambodge.

Bernard pays in cash. Always. It is, along with the stool and the refusal to walk, one of the three pillars of his civilisation.

Born in Virginia to a Cambodian mother and settled in Hawaii, Darny Chau strings together small parts on the biggest shoots in the Pacific. Her face has passed through Magnum, Hawaii Five-0 and, last year, Disney's Lilo & Stitch. A portrait of one of the screen's background figures.

As American bombs rained relentlessly on neighboring Vietnam, an old general in uniform, Charles de Gaulle, came to remind the world's powers that Asia belongs to no one.

Gaston knows dozens of lines from French films of the 1960s and 70s by heart. He pulls them out pretty much constantly, often with little connection to the situation at hand, and sometimes in front of people who simply don't speak French. That never stops him.

Hunted by anti-Christian repression in Cochinchina, driven out of Battambang by a princely revolt, confidant of King Ang Duong at the court of Oudong: the life of Jean-Claude Miche, a missionary from the Vosges who became bishop of Cambodia, reads like an adventure novel. He was also, quietly, one of the most decisive architects behind the birth of the French protectorate in 1863.

In 1866, a patchwork army of Khmer peasants, Vietnamese, Muslim Chams and Stieng hill fighters stormed the old royal capital of Oudong. Leading them was a Buddhist monk with a near-messianic hold over his followers: Pou Kombo. His uprising, one of the largest Cambodia saw in the 19th century, came close to toppling both the throne and the fledgling French protectorate.

A documentary traces the origins of Khmer Rise Up, an artistic and community-driven event pulled together in just ten days in Phnom Penh in late 2024, born out of the friendship between Zakary 'Zach' Peang and his partner in crime Shin, and their encounter with the Tiny Toones association.

In Angoulême with four of his films, as part of the Cambodian selection at the Francophone Film Festival, director Rithy Panh spoke to TV5MONDE about his career, his lifelong work on memory, and his view — both fascinated and wary — of artificial intelligence.

From 22 August to 22 October 2026, Australian visual artist Julia Higgs will take up residence at Art for Kep, spending two months responding to Kep's rainforest and shoreline through drawing, sculpture, installation, and performance.

Cambodia took centre stage in Angoulême from 24 to 29 August, as the Francophone Film Festival dedicated its 19th edition to the Kingdom. Nine Cambodian films were screened, a royal delegation attended, and a major partner, the OCIC group, presented Cambodia's future through its new Techo International Airport.