Golden Slumbers

The grandson of veteran Cambodian film producer Van Chann, the Paris-born Davy Chou returns to his ancestral land to reassemble the "golden age" of Cambodian cinema in the 1960s through meetings with its main protagonists. There are priceless testimonies from directors Ly Bun Yim and Yvon Hem, for example, and also recollections from film star Dy Saveth, who escaped from the Khmer Rouge's clutches because she happened to be out of the country when the guerrillas marched into Phnom Penh. Pensionaged film buffs also recall the good old days of watching local movies in now-vanished bustling theatres, as Chou wanders around Phnom Penh trying to look for these vanished traces of a long-gone era.