WHITE BUILDING

ប៊ូឌីញ

By Kavich NEANG

LES FILMS DU LOSANGE - as SALES / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, FRANCE

Drama - Completed 2021

SAMNANG, 20, faces the demolition of his lifelong home in a famous old building in Phnom Penh. He struggles to maintain his situation’s fragile balance as pressures mount from family, friends, and neighbors in this moment of sudden change.

Festivals
& Awards

Busan IFF 2021
A Window on Asian Cinema
Venice - Biennale 2021
Best Actor Award - Horizonti
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • CAMBODIA, FRANCE, CHINA, QATAR
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, KHMER
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Kavich NEANG
    • Producer(s)
    • Davy CHOU (ANTI ARCHIVE ), Marine ARRIGHI DE CASANOVA (APSARA FILMS ), Zhang-Ke JIA (Xstream Pictures )
    • Synopsis
    • 20-year-old Samnang and two of his friends live in the White Building, a landmark tenement in Phnom Penh. In this fast-changing city, the three boys practice their dance routine dreaming of television talent contests while their parents lead a more traditional lifestyle. But the White Building is to be demolished. Samnang observes his father unsuccessfully attempting to bring together his divided neighbors on the government’s compensation offers for residents to move out, and he must face his best friend’s departure from Cambodia. Samnang finds that the stable environment he has always called home is on shaky ground.