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Hanuman

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So I just recently got back from an amazing trip throughout Southeast Asia! The Apsara dancers of Cambodia were one of my favorite things. 

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So I just recently got back from an amazing trip throughout Southeast Asia! The Apsara dancers of Cambodia were one of my favorite things. 

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Cambodia National Team's new 2016 home kit

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the older looks/hairstyles were my favorites from the “cambodian [women] throughout history“ video. though i wish a different hairstyle was used (with hair ornaments of that time) for the angkor era (i don’t think the bun style is accurate).

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Shake The Dust

Breakdancing strikes a resonant chord in the slums, favelas and ghettos of the world. While each culture adopts and adapts hip-hop music, blending it with their own traditions, the breakdancing moves act as a universal language. Moving smoothly between breakdance crews in the poorest urban neighborhoods of Colombia, Yemen, Uganda, and Cambodia, Sjöberg weaves together the stories of rappers, DJs, and b-boys across three continents, revealing how breakdancing today acts as a positive force for social change. [trailer}

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Last of the Elephant Men (2015) : 

For centuries the Bunong indigenous people on the Cambodian-Vietnamese border lived with elephants, believing they shared the same destiny. Today, as the forests and rivers both man and animal depend on are threatened, their fates seem even more inseparable. Last of the Elephant Men follows over a period of time several members of the tribe as they attempt to save the animal that once defined their way of life and may hold the key to their own survival. [trailer]

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1931: Two women actors perform the Ramayana for the Cambodian court - W. Robert Moore/NatGeo

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Verses In Exile | (PBS)

Verses in Exile is a web series in four parts that tells the tangled tale of Cambodia’s most famous contemporary poet prior to his deportation. With no choice but to be told entirely in a land his family fled, Kosal Khiev recounts his journey from refugee to troubled youth, from prison inmate to free roaming poet.  [x]     

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RUIN:

RUIN is an impressionistic fable - the story of Phirun (Rous Mony) and Sovanna (Sang Malen) - two young lovers inexplicably drawn together who escape a brutal and exploitative world of crime and violence in modern day Cambodia.

Fleeing Phnom Penh after a murder, they travel deeper into the jungle. As their vulnerable love ebbs and flows along their journey, they wake from the trauma of their former lives and unleash a violent rage upon the world. Love and death intermingle as they travel deeper into the abyss- their world strangely transforming around the two young lovers on the run. [trailer]

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The Last Reel:

A lost film, buried beneath Cambodia's killing fields, reveals different versions of the truth. A contemporary story about love, family and the ghosts of Cambodia's past. [trailer]

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Hanuman (2015):

After years of Bokator training. Vicheat comes back to avenge the death of his father killed by the ruthless crime Lord Kim Veng. 

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The Last Season (2014):

Amid the bustling world of Central Oregon’s wild mushroom hunting camps, the lives of two former soldiers intersect. Roger, a 75 year-old sniper with the US Special Forces in Vietnam, and Kouy, a 46 year-old platoon leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Freedom Fighters who battled the Khmer Rouge, come together each fall to hunt the elusive matsutake mushroom, a rare mushroom prized in Japanese culture and cuisine. However, the pair discover more than just mushrooms in the woods: they find a new life, and livelihood; and, a means to slowly heal the scarring wounds of war. Told over the course of one matsutake mushroom season, THE LAST SEASON is a journey into the woods, into the memory of war and survival, telling a story of family from an unexpected place

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Of course people in Cambodia experience what Americans call depression. But the Cambodian Khmer language offers no direct translation for that term. Instead, people may say, “thelea tdeuk ceut,” which literally means, “the water in my heart has fallen.” They may also suffer khyal attacks, or “wind attacks,” the quick onset of heart palpitations, blurry vision, and shortness of breath - which is their term for panic attacks. “There’s a surge of blood in their limbs and body, and sometimes people feel like they could die from this.” No matter where we live or what we call our experiences, all humans share a common emotional language. Some are just more poetic than others. More at the source: x

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Rooster Teeth tribute to Monty Oum