Pls be our guest for this week’s highlights (program details below) ? starting with a newly subtitled version of former King Sihanouk’s most important film SHADOW OVER ANGKOR (this Tuesday, 7PM).
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Special tip: On SUNDAY, Dec 14, 4PM we are hosting a WALTZ DANCE WORKSHOP. For all those, who always wanted to dance Waltz or Cha Cha Cha, Austrian dance teacher Tina Kodritsch will give free of charge dance classes. Come and join! (Levels: beginners + intermediate.)
Bring your partner and adequate shoes.
Duration: 90 min, incl. a break.
Admission via 012 607 465 or 012 208 347
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C u at Meta House, best regards,
Nico Mesterharm, Lydia Parusol
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TUES, 09/12, 8PM CAMBODIAN FILMMAKER’S NIGHT
7PM “CAMBODIA 1965″ Rare Footage from the Palace Archive
8PM “SHADOW OVER ANGKOR” By Hr.R.H. NORODOM SIHANOUK
WED, 10/12, 8 PM EQUITY TV: HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
“Equity Weekly” is a groundbreaking Khmer/English TV program on topics concerning society, politics and economy – financed by UNDP, aired by state channel TVK. For this year’s HUMAN RIGHTS DAY the program makers present a selection of doc films on human rights issues in Cambodia.
THUR, 11/12, 8PM “DOGORA”
Khmer Hypnotic: The French film by Patrice Leconte is often called a “street level documentary”, that beautifully captures the daily routines of the people of Cambodia ?accompanied by a majestic classical soundtrack. (80 min, 2004,)
FRI, 12/12 “NEW YEAR BABY” (7 PM in Khmer language, 8PM in English)
A few years ago in Dallas, Texas. After 25 years of attempting to live a “normal American life,” Socheata Poeuv’s parents revealed a shocking family secret that would draw them all back to Cambodia, the home they fled during the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979. Socheata Poeuv documents the unfurling of her family mystery in a beautiful, strong film.
SAT, 13/12, 6PM “DSCHAUTZE!” by RONALD KODRITSCH (Austria)
Ronald Kodritsch - born 1970 in Austria – attended from 1990 to 1992 the Masters School of Painting in Graz with Gerhard Lojen. Then he moved to Vienna and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna by Gunter Damisch. Study visits took him to London (Chelsea School of Art), Paris, New York and to Asia: In Phnom Penh Kodritsch shows 30 drawings made in China.
On the rooftop, from 7PM: Exciting video art by DEREK JARMAN and BRIAN ENO (VIDEO PAINTINGS )
SUN, 14/12, 8PM: Doc film “WARDANCE”
Set in Northern Uganda, Oscar-nominated documentary WARDANCE tells the story of Dominic, Rose, and Nancy, three children whose families have been torn apart, their homes destroyed, and who currently reside in a displaced persons camp in Patongo. When they are invited to compete in an annual music and dance festival, their historic journey to their nation’s capital is also an opportunity to regain a part of their childhood and to taste victory for the first time in their lives.
Ongoing Exhibition until January 05 2009
PP PHOTO FESTIVAL – FRÉDÉRIC LECLOUX – “L’USURE DU MONDE”
(GALLERY OPEN FROM TUESDAY TO SUNDAY, 6PM)
