- IFC, Fable Cinema Phnom Penh Factory & Legend Cinema Olympia Mall
- Multiple languages
- 3$ per screenings
- From May 15th to May 26th, 2024
The Cannes Film Festival is coming to Phnom Penh!
For this 4th edition of the festival, Institut français du Cambodge, Fable Cinema and Legend Cinema are joining forces to roll out the Cannes red carpet in Phnom Penh: from May 15 to 26, 2024, come and share the thrill of the screenings of La Croisette!
More than 20 films from the official selection will be presented, including the 2023 Palme d’Or, Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Trinet, as well as some of the classic masterpieces of cinema history awarded at Cannes, for the pleasure of our audiences of all ages.
Single fee of $3 per screening.
Tickets for the IFC screenings will be on sale on site from May 10. Tickets for the Fable Cinema and Legend Cinema Olympia Mall screenings will be on sale on site the same day of the screening at their respective venue.
PALME D'OR
Wednesday, May 15th at IFC at 7pm [INAUGURATION]
Sunday, May 26th at Legend Cinema Olympia Mall at 9pm
151 minutes – French with English subtitles
Country: France
Not recommended for children under age 14
Sandra, Samuel and their visually impaired son Daniel have been living in a remote mountain location for the past year. When Samuel is found dead outside the house, an investigation for death in suspicious circumstances is launched. Amidst the uncertainty, Sandra is indicted: Was it suicide or homicide ? A year later Daniel attends his mother’s trial, a veritable dissection of his parents’ relationship.
GRAND PRIX 2023, PRIX C.S.T. DE L'ARTISTE-TECHNICIEN 2023
Thursday, May 16th at IFC at 6:30pm
Sunday, May 26th at Legend Cinema Olympia Mall at 19h
106 minutes – German, Polish, Yiddish with English subtitles
Countries: US, UK, Poland
Not recommended for children under age 14
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
PRIX DE LA MISE EN SCÈNE 2023
Thursday, May 16th at Legend Cinema Olympia Mall at 9pm
Saturday, May 25th at IFC at 2pm
134 minutes – French with English subtitles
Country: France
Not recommended for children under age 14
1885. Peerless cook Eugenie has worked for the famous gourmet Dodin for the last 20 years. As time went by, the practice of gastronomy and mutual admiration turned into a romantic relationship. Their association gives rise to dishes one more delicious than the next, that confound even the world’s most illustrious chefs. But Eugenie is fond of her freedom and has never wanted to marry Dodin. He decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.
PRIX DU JURY - UN CERTAIN REGARD 2023
Friday, May 17th at IFC at 6:30pm (French subtitles)
Sunday, May 19th at Fable Cinema Factory Phnom Penh at 4:30pm (English subtitles)
94 minutes – Arabic
Countries: Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
Not recommended for children under age 16
Dans les faubourgs populaires de Casablanca, Hassan et Issam, père et fils, vivent au jour le jour, enchaînant les petits trafics pour la pègre locale. Un soir, ils sont chargés de kidnapper un homme. Commence alors une longue nuit à travers les bas-fonds de la ville…
PRIX DU JURY 2023
Friday, May 17th at Legend Cinema Olympia Mall at 9pm
Sunday, May 26th at Fable Cinema Factory Phnom Penh at 3:30pm
94 minutes – Finnish with English subtitles
Country: Finland
Not recommended for children under age 16
Fallen Leaves tells the story of two lonely people who meet each other by chance in the Helsinki night and try to find the first, only, and ultimate love of their lives. This gentle tragicomedy, previously thought to be lost, is the fourth part of Aki Kaurismäki’s working-class trilogy (Shadows in Paradise, Ariel, and The Match Factory)
Saturday, May 18th at IFC at 10:30am
Saturday, May 25th at IFC at 10:30am
96 minutes – Silent
Countries: Spain, France
From 6 years old
DOG lives in Manhattan and he’s tired of being alone. One day he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of 80’s NYC. One summer night, DOG, with great sadness, is forced to abandon ROBOT at the beach. Will they ever meet again? A story about friendship, its importance, and its fragility.
PRIX D'INTERPRÉTATION MASCULINE 2023
Saturday, May 18th at 2pm at IFC
Friday, May 24th at Legend Cinema Olympia Mall at 9pm
123 minutes – Japanese with English subtitles
Country: Japan
Not recommended for children under 14
Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, reads books and takes photos. A deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us.
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Saturday, May 18th at IFC at 4:30pm
Saturday, May 25th at Legend Cinema Olympia Mall at 7pm
130 minutes – French with English subtitles
Country: France
Not recommended for children under 14
In a world hit by a wave of mutations that are gradually transforming some humans into animals, François does everything he can to save his wife, who is affected by this mysterious condition. As some of the creatures disappear into a nearby forest, he embarks with Emile, their 16-year-old son, on a quest that will change their lives forever.
CANNES CLASSICS - PALME D'OR 1961
Saturday, May 18th at Fable Cinema Phnom Penh Factory at 3pm
Wednesday, May 22nd at Legend Cinema Olympia Mall at 9pm
98 minutes – French with English subtitles
Country: France
Therese runs a café in Paris. One day, a tramp passes by humming a familiar tune, and Therese is convinced that the vagabond is her husband, who disappeared sixteen years earlier. The tramp seems to suffer from amnesia; Therese brings him back to her café in hopes of jogging his memory and renewing the love they once shared.
GRAND PRIX DE LA SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE 2023
Saturday, May 18th at Fable Cinema Phnom Penh Factory at 5pm
95 minutes – Malay with English subtitles
Country: Malaysia
Not recommended for children under age 13
Zaffan (12) struggles with puberty, discovering a terrifying secret about her physical self. Her failed attempts to conceal the inevitable lead her friends to find out who she really is, and they attack her. As Zaffan is further provoked by her own community, she soon learns that embracing her true self is the only answer to her freedom.
MEILLEUR SCENARIO 2023
Saturday, May 18th at Legend Cinema Olympia Mall à 7pm
Saturday, May 25th at IFC at 4:30pm
126 minutes – Japanese with English subtitles
Country: Japan
Not recommended for children under age 14
When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what’s going on. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, the truth gradually emerges.
CAMÉRA D'OR 2023
Sunday, May 19th at Fable Cinema Phnom Penh Factory at 1pm
182 minutes – Vietnamese with English subtitles
Country: Vietnam
Not recommended for children under age 13
Thien has to take the remains of his deceased sister-in-law to the family village, accompanied by his five-year-old nephew. In the hinterland of Vietnam, spectres of his own youth, of his brother, who has left to rebuild his life elsewhere, and of the war also await him. This is a pilgrimage with mystical overtones, to rural parts of the country and its little-known Christian minority.
UN CERTAIN REGARD 2023
Sunday, May 19th at Legend Cinema Olympia Mall at 7pm
Saturday, May 25th at Fable Cinema Phnom Penh Factory at 3pm
98 minutes – English with French subtitles
Countries: UK, Greece
Not recommended for children under age 16
Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday – drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.
EN COMPÉTITION - SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE 2023
Sunday, May 19th at Legend Cinema Olympia Mall at 9pm
Saturday, May 25th at Fable Cinema Phnom Penh Factory at 5pm
130 minutes – Italian with English subtitles
Countries: Italy, France, Switzerland
Not recommended for children under age 16
Just out of jail and still searching for his late beloved Beniamina, crumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of Ttombaroli accomplices – a happy-go-lucky collective of itinerant grave-robbers who survive by looting Etruscan tombs and fencing the ancient treasures they dig up. Arthur isn’t interested in the artifacts, though; he’s seeking a legendary door to the underworld, and to Beniamina.
CANNES CLASSICS
Monday, May 20th at IFC at 6:30pm
135 minutes – Japanese with French subtitles
Country: Japan
Not recommended for children under age 14
Ozu depicts the nuances of affection between an elderly couple and their adult children with his exquisitely moving and elegantly simple touch, beginning with two aging parents living in the small town of Onomichi in Hiroshima who pay a visit to their eldest son and daughter in Tokyo, in the hope of creating memories to cherish for the rest of their days. Location shooting took place in Onomichi, Osaka, Atami, and Tokyo.
CANNES CLASSICS
Tuesday, May 21th at IFC at 6:30pm
125 minutes – Khmer with English subtitles
Country: Cambodia
Not recommended for children under age 14
Rice People depicts a post-Cambodian Civil War family struggling to control their own destiny. In a Cambodia where children now believe that rice comes from UN relief trucks,
a family attempts to grow their own rice on a small plot of land.
CANNES CLASSICS
Wednesday, May 22nd at IFC at 6:30pm
102 minutes – Japanese with English subtitles
Country: Japan
Not recommended for children under age 14
Mr. Asai left Tokyo during World War II, and now resides in Nara. He is a widower who lives with his three daughters: Chizuru, the eldest, who has returned home after her husband’s death; Ayako, who is of marriageable age but shows little interest in leaving home; and Setsuko, the youngest and most tomboyish of the three sisters. The latter is platonically close with Shoji, the out-of-work younger brother of Chizuru’s late husband, who lodges at a temple near the Asai’s home. One day, Shoji’s old friend Amamiya drops by while on a business trip. When Setsuko finds out that he remembers Ayako well from their youth, she joins forces with Shoji in a sneaky bid to reconnect the two…
CANNES CLASSICS
Thursday, May 23rd at IFC at 6:30pm
110 minutes – French with English subtitles
Country: France
Not recommended for children under age 16
American film producer Jeremy Prokosch hires respected Austrian director Fritz Lang to direct a film adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey. Dissatisfied with Lang’s treatment of the material as an art film, Prokosch hires Paul Javal, a novelist and playwright, to rework the script. The conflict between artistic expression and commercial opportunity parallels Paul’s sudden estrangement from his wife Camille Javal , who becomes aloof with Paul after being left alone with Prokosch, a millionaire playboy.
CANNES CLASSICS
Thursday, May 23rd at Legend Cinema Olympia Mall at 9pm
Sunday, May 26th at Fable Cinema Phnom Penh Factory at 1pm
125 minutes – French with English subtitles
Country: France
Not recommended for children under age 16
In a Mediterranean country in the 60s, a progressive member of parliament (Yves Montand) is assassinated. The examining magistrate in charge of the enquiry (Jean-Louis Trintignant) exposes the involvement of the government, the army and the police in particular.
CANNES CLASSICS
Friday, May 24th at IFC at 6:30pm
108 minutes – Khmer with English subtitles
Country: Cambodia
Not recommended for children under age 16
After the end of the Cambodian Civil War, people in Cambodia struggled in their return to their normal lives. Among them is Savannah, a kickboxer. A survivor of the war, who lost most of his family to the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, he lives with his uncle in Phnom Penh. Savannah begins a romance with a 19-year-old bar girl, Srey Poeuv, whom he wants to help clear her debt.
