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...

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.

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.

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.

Three Cambodian actors walk the Croisette for the world premiere of an event film selected at ACID 2026. A historic moment for Khmer cinema.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

From the Flooded Plains of Cambodia to the Straits of Malacca, civilizations of unsuspected grandeur built the first states of Southeast Asia—and changed the course of human history forever.

Cambodia will celebrate the 72nd birthday of His Majesty Preah Bat Samdech Preah Boromneath Norodom Sihamoni, son of the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk and Queen Norodom Monineath, on Wednesday, May 14.

CIFF 360 — Kampot & Kep, May 13–17, 2026. The evening breeze drifted gently over the Kampot river as the first silhouettes began settling onto the beach, not far from the old colonial bridge. No darkened theatre, no cushioned seats — just the Cambodian sky, the murmur of the water, and a screen stretched out to face History.

The construction of huts for Kreung minority teenage girls, so they can have sexual relations before marriage, has long been rooted in this minority's culture. But it seems this custom now belongs almost entirely to the past.

There is, in certain programming choices, something that resembles a manifesto. Opening an international film festival not with an entertainment film, not with a light comedy or a universal drama, but with Meeting with Pol Pot—this sets a demand from the outset. That of a cinema that questions, that disturbs, that refuses the ease of the gaze.

Until 1979, Anlong Veng was essentially a sleepy village with little historical significance. After 1979, and especially after 1989, when Vietnamese forces withdrew from Cambodia, the region surrounding Anlong Veng became a stronghold of the Khmer Rouge...

She met Princess Buppha Devi when she was very young and danced with her until the war separated them. In 1993, Pen Sokhoun was reunited with the Princess and the few survivors of Pol Pot's bloody regime. Together, they worked tirelessly to revive the ballet, restoring its grandeur and splendour throughout the world.

Captain Van Nay’s journey began as a "Khmer Rouge child," leaving his hometown in Takeo province to serve as a messenger for the Region 5, Northwest Zone during the Khmer Rouge regime (1975–1979). He later served as a Khmer Rouge soldier in the Malai region from 1981 until 1996.