A Cambodian Spring

The documentary is set in Cambodia. The subject is a land dispute around a lake. The lake lies in Phnom Penh. The plan is to fill it in and open the ground to building. Those living there are losing their homes. A resistance to it begins. The film follows three people. Two of them are women from the neighbourhood. They are Tep Vanny and Toul Srey Pov. The third is a monk called Luon Sovath. The monk records what is happening. For that he comes under pressure himself. The filming stretches over years. There are no interviews and no voice over in the film. Chris Kelly directed the hundred and twenty seven minute documentary. The Cambodian and British coproduction was finished in 2018.