Cambodia International Film Festival returns in June following two-year hiatus

Sopheap Chea (right), director of Bophana Centre, gives an interview at the press conference on May 25 at Rosewood Phnom Penh. - SUPPLIED

PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network): The Cambodia International Film Festival (CIFF) will finally return for its 11th edition from June 28 to July 3 this year following its cancellation due to the pandemic for the past two years.

Appropriately, the poster advertising the festival will feature an original painting called Just Born by Battambang-based artist Khchao Touch, which is meant to signify the rebirth of the film industry in Cambodia after it was shattered and left in pieces for two years while Covid-19 took its toll, with the virus causing disruption to society that was unprecedented in living memory.