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15 June 2011

Phnom Penh Lullaby,Director:Pawel Kloc,Producer:Pawel Kloc, Poland, 2011, 98 min, HDCAM, English

A misfit in his native Israel, Ilan came to Cambodia hoping to make a fresh start. Eight years later, he finds himself living in a cramped room with girlfriend Saran in the oppressively hot capital Phnom Penh. They communicate together in pidgin English, and try to make ends meet by reading Tarot cards on the seedy streets at night, their baby Jasmine in tow. They can’t afford for their two-year-old daughter Marie to live with them, so they undertake an arduous journey to the countryside. Saran has promised that her family will take care of the girl - as they have done her other children by other men. But all is not as it seems, and Ilan soon finds himself in confusing, frightening circumstances, unable to adequately protect his daughters in a country where young girls are sold into prostitution every day. An intimate observational portrait of life in an all too brutal country.

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