The writer/director of the magical Return to Seoul explains how he drew inspiration from a close friend to create his striking protagonist.

Cambodian filmmaker Kavich Neang’s short film 'Three Wheels' explores the trauma of forced marriages during the Khmer Rouge.

Ke Huy Quan, the Vietnamese American actor widely expected to win Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards this weekend for his role in Everything Everywhere All At Once, is part of increased Asian representation seen at the Oscars in recent years. If he wins, he’ll be the second Asian actor to win the prize.

We interviewed filmmaker Davy Chou about his latest — and most personal — film, Return to Seoul.

In Cambodia’s official Oscar submission, Park Ji-min makes a surprisingly assured debut as a French Korean adoptee.

When we last spoke with Davy Chou, we caught him at the debut of his sophomore film, “Return to Seoul” in Cannes. This time, we speak with him again at a different point of the movie: during its awards tour.

Cambodian-French director Davy Chou explains why his award-winning film about a Korean-born French adoptee reunited with her parents has links to his own life.

The Korea JoongAng Daily sat down with Davy Chou, the French-Cambodian director of “Return to Seoul,” for a conversation on the many themes of the film, the process of telling Freddie’s story and casting veteran Korean actors like Oh Kwang-rok and Kim Sun-young.

In what has been the widest open Oscars’ international feature category race in years, countries that previously had not been dominant in the category have emerged as strong contenders. 

On a whim, a Frenchwoman goes to visit South Korea, the country of her birth, in Davy Chou’s drama.

A young indigenous Bunong woman and her brother are about to move to Phnom Penh, in order to search for a better life.

It is Cambodia’s next Oscars entry, has a Korean-born and France-based star, a French-Cambodian director, and was shot in South Korea.

As the Khmer Rouge took over and citizens living in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh were forcibly evacuated by the Khmer Rouge, Sinn Sisamouth got lost in the mass of people leaving.

There are many remarkable things about director Davy Chou’s film Return To Seoul, but perhaps the most remarkable is his star, Park Ji-min, an artist without any previous acting experience.

Rithy Panh, director of “Rice People” and “S21 The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine” is an icon of art-house cinema, at once political, unique, and charming.

In 2014, Jake Wachtel moved to Cambodia to teach a year-long class in filmmaking to children as part of the ‘Filmmakers Without Borders’ initiative.

The poster of Thai film Love Destiny showed the stars surrounded by lamduan flowers, which Cambodians said was a misappropriation of their national flower.

A new documentary tells the story of the Lotus Sports Club and Pa Vann Sovann, its much-respected transgender coach.

Karmalink is the first Cambodian sci-fi movie, which will be released in the US theatrically in major cities and on VOD on July 15, 2022.

Cambodian auteur Rithy Panh has rejoined the jury that will decide the prizes for Cannes Film Festival’s inaugural TikTok short film competition.