Today, after decades of war, Angkor is teeming with life. Small merchants, rice farmers and Buddhist priests help to perpetuate traditional ways of life: while guards, people working on the archeological site and guides contribute to tourist activities.
In Angkor Wat, we follow a boy and his relationships with the people who live there, the ruins, and the tourists. The legends and magical stories depicted on the stones of the temple remains overlap with the reality of modern Cambodia. The lingering pain left by years of civil war, the gap between conditions in the cities and the countryside, and the thoughts of the boy who has lost sight of the future are conveyed at a leisurely rhythm with beautiful imagery that gently evokes emotion in the viewer.

emission time: 90 min.

Festivals:
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2005
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival 2005
Silverdocs 2005 – AFI / Discovery Channel Documentary Festival
Sheffield International Documentary Festival Tour 2005
Tribeca Film Festival
19th Singapore International Film Festival '05

09.07.07, 09:00 pm.
Atom Movie Theater