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Sound of the Night

Leaving August 31 • 19m

Directed by Chanrado Sok and Kongkea Vann • 2021 • Cambodia
Starring Mony Rous, Long Meach, Lina Ry

The world of Phnom Penh by dark is seen through the eyes of Vibol and Kea, two brothers who sell noodles on a motorized cart every night on the city’s sometimes rough streets. As the metropolis changes around them, they consider their precarious existence and imagine a different future.

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