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WHERE ELEPHANTS WEEP @ META & CHENLA

Dear Friends of Meta House!

After Water Festival we'd like to present to you our new program for this
week –
starting with this Tuesday's presentation (8 PM) of Cambodian Living Art's
"WHERE
ELEPHANTS WEEP": The first Cambodian rock opera to be premiered in Phnom
Penh.

At Meta House you can meet the project makers. The opera itself will be
staged at
Chenla Theatre from 28th Nov. on. Please also read the attached PDF invite
for this
exciting event.

Hope to see you soon,
All the best – Nico Mesterharm, Lydia Parusol

******

TUES, 18/11, 8PM "WHERE ELEPHANTS WHEEP"
Amrita Performing Arts and Cambodian Living Arts give a foretaste of the
world
premiere of the first Khmer Rock Opera (from November 28 until December 07
2008 @
Chenla Theatre). Meet the people behind it @ MH.

WED, 19/11, 8PM "TERROR'S ADVOCATE"
Powerful documentary by Barbet Schroeder on the controversial lawyer
Jacques Vergès,
who has defended Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and super-terrorist Carlos
"The
Jackal". His latest case brings Vergès to Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Trial.
(2007,
135min)

THUR, 20/11, 8PM "WHY WE FIGHT"
Excellent documentary by Eugene Jarecki on America's war policies, Iraq
and what is
termed "the Bush doctrine". (2005, 99min.)

FRI, 21/11, 8PM "SAVE THE ECOSYSTEMS!"
Cambodia's ecosystems provide rural Cambodia with its main source of
income. Despite
their importance, ecosystems are degraded and species are threatened –
feat. doc
films "Prey Lang" by Jocelyn & Ben Pederick (Winner of the Environmental
Film Fest
2008), "Serengeti of Asia" by Allan Michaud a.m.m.

SAT, 22/11, 8PM "THE NEW KHMER KIDZ"
Meta House presents a selection of documentaries on the daily life of
Cambodian kids
and their struggle for a better future - including "VIDEO POSTCARDS" by
Christine
Bouteillier and "LIFES A BEACH" by N. Mesterharm about the life of a
teenage fruit
seller from Sihanoukville.

SUN, 23/11, 8PM "THE CROSS & THE BODDHI TREE"
Two documentaries about Christian-Buddhist Encounters in Cambodia plus the
feature
film "SPRING SUMMER, FALL, WINTER AND SPRING" by Korean director Kim
Ki-duk, who has
crafted a universal story about human spirit and its evolution – taking
place on an
isolated lake, where an old monk lives on a small floating temple. (2003,
103min.)

OperaEvite.pdf

posted by Jinja @ 3:27 PM