Phnom Phen Lullaby (2011)_#3 Looking East Season

Part of the Looking East

Director: Pawel Kloc
Certificate: Unknown
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Format: Unknown
Language: English
Country: Poland

Ian Schickman left Israel in search of a new, fulfilled life. Settled in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with his girlfriend Saran and daughters trying to o make ends meet as a street fortune-teller. Beautifully shot portrait of the unusual relationship between an alcoholic woman and her Israeli partner. She wants to get married and go to Israel, he's looking to start a new life.

“Phnom Penh Lullaby” directed by Pawel Kloc -young Polish filmmaker- is an intimate story of a man looking for true love and acceptance.

Other films in the Looking East :

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Film: The Art Of Dissapearing / Sztuka Znikania (2013) + 2 Short Docs By Krzysztof Kieslowski_#1 Looking East Season

6 Apr 2014, 7 p.m.

Poland year 1980. A young, Haitian voodoo priest Amon Fremon s about to introduce the members of the Theatre of Sources to shamanic practices. A romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz is leading him to the underworld to help contact Polish ancestors. Trance-like cinematic essay combining dreamlike images with archival footage.

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Film: Incantatio (2009)+ Intuitive Butoh Dance Live Act _#2 Looking East Season

24 Apr 2014, 7 p.m.

The intuitive live butoh dance performance by Pawel Dudzinski will be accompanied by live music set featuring James Watts on vocal. Incantatio is a mystery play in the heart of a wild forest, where the artist reinvents a sacred ritual of the dance of darkness, called ‘ankoku butoh’.

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Film: May 11 Elektro Moskva [2013]+ Free Jam_#4 Looking East Season

11 May 2014, 7 p.m.

Electro Moscow is an essayistic documentary about the Soviet electronic age and its legacy. The story begins with the inventor of the world’s first electronic instrument, Leon Theremin, unveiling the KGB’s huge pile of fascinating devices, some of which were musical.