"Where Elephants Weep" on Television- CTN Dec. 25, Jan. 1
TELEVISION BROADCAST "WHERE ELEPHANTS WEEP"
CHRISTMAS DAY (Dec. 25) NEW YEARS DAY (Jan. 1)
7:30 PM on CTN- Khmer Mekong Films/CTN Filming of the Opera
If you missed the opera, a great chance to see it.
If you saw it at Chenla, with camera close ups the emotional power of this broadcast is strong.
PLEASE TELL YOUR FRIENDS - on CTN, DEC. 25 and JAN. 1 7:30 PM
THE LAST WEEKEND BEFORE X-MAS @ META
DEAR META HOUSE FRIENDS,
MERRY X-MAS AND A HAPPY 2009!
For the upcoming holidays, we wish you all the best: Peace & happiness.
META HOUSE IS CLOSED FROM 22ND DECEMBER TO 2ND JANUARY 2009
In January 2009 we are celebrating our 2nd anniversary.
Enjoy our special birthday programme - and/or visit us this weekend.
FRI, 19/12, 8PM THE POST
One of Southeast Asia's legendary publications, the "Phnom Penh Post" was founded by editor Michael Hayes in 1992 as a bi-weekly newspaper. Tonite we screen a documentary from 1999: 9 years before the PHNOM PENH POST moved from our neighbourhood to the Phnom Penh Center and went daily - with a very young, very appealing Michael Hayes in the middle of the film. Don't miss - it's cult!
SAT, 20/12, 8PM NICE HAT!
David Brisbin is best known as a feature film production designer, having designed movies for such directors as Jane Campion and Gus Van Sant. Brisbin's first extensive encounter with Cambodians was as a reporter covering Cambodian refugees inside the Thai border in 1987 when Cambodia was still a closed country. NICE HAT is his first feature length doc film: A history of Cambodia seen entirely through hats and headgear. (with Rithy Panh, Ly Daravuth amm.)
SUN, 21/12, 8PM SET IN ASIA: "DRIVING WITH MY WIFE'S LOVER"
By Kim Tai-sik (In Korean with English subtitles, 92 min.)
A man living in the seaside town of Naksan discovers that his wife has taken a lover, who drives a taxi in Seoul. Tae-han sets out to confront him and seek vicious revenge. He has no difficulty convincing the gregarious and unknowing Joon-sik to drive him back to Naksan. During the journey, a comedy of errors ensues as director Kim shifts tones from ominous, to sad, to funny by creating a delightful off-centered atmosphere with anything-can-happen suspense. The two men are brought together in a tenuous but authentic camaraderie. Color-rich cinematography and an urbane banjo-driven music score.
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SPECIAL ANNOUCEMENT
TELEVISION BROADCAST "WHERE ELEPHANTS WEEP"
The first Khmer Rock Opera
CHRISTMAS DAY (Dec. 25) NEW YEARS DAY (Jan. 1)
7:30 PM on CTN- Khmer Mekong Films/CTN Filming of the Opera
If you missed the opera, a great chance to see it.
If you saw it at Chenla, with camera close ups the emotional power of this broadcast is strong.
PLEASE TELL YOUR FRIENDS - on CTN, DEC. 25 and JAN. 1 7:30 PM
Java Cabaret
JAVA CAFE & GALLERY NEWSLETTER | Locations | | Put you dancing shoes on, there's a party tonight!! Thursday, December 18, starting from 6pm, AsiaLife presents A Christmas Cabaret at Java Café & Gallery! DJ by Primitive Souls, Cabaret show by Cindy and delicious nibbles and cocktails by Java!! Don't forget your costume! Prizes for the best and worst! 
| Java Café & Gallery 56 E1 Sihanouk Blvd
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Tel: 023 987 420
HP: 012 833 512
Open everyday: 7am - 10pm Java Express 56 E1 Sihanouk Blvd
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
HP: 092 289 126
Open Mon - Sat: 7am - 3pm Java TeaRoom (At Monument Books)
111 Norodom Blvd
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
HP: 092 451 462
Open everyday 8am - 8pm www.javaarts.org
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Christmas Cabaret
JAVA CAFE & GALLERY NEWSLETTER | Locations | | AsiaLife Christmas party at Java Café & Gallery, Thursday, December 18, starting from 6pm Featuring a live Cabaret show by Cindy, DJ by Primitive Souls, Christmas cocktails and free nibbles!! Come dressed up, prizes for Best and Worst costume!!
| Java Café & Gallery 56 E1 Sihanouk Blvd
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Tel: 023 987 420
HP: 012 833 512
Open everyday: 7am - 10pm Java Express 56 E1 Sihanouk Blvd
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
HP: 092 289 126
Open Mon - Sat: 7am - 3pm Java TeaRoom (At Monument Books)
111 Norodom Blvd
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
HP: 092 451 462
Open everyday 8am - 8pm www.javaarts.org
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The Loss of a Great Artist
JAVA CAFE & GALLERY NEWSLETTER | Locations | | SVAY KEN
1933 – 2008
Master artist, Svay Ken passed away on December 11, 2008. It's a great loss for the Cambodian art community, as the grandfather of New Cambodian Art. He was an inspiration to all the artists, in his desire to preserve and document the Cambodian culture he opened a path for artists to explore their own personal vision.
"I paint in order to preserve the traditions of former generations, in particular those of my grandfather. My grandfather, Hol Touch, had four sons who were trained as traditional painters but later painted in a 'modern' realistic style as well. In 1993, after these relatives had all died, there were no grandchildren who knew how to make art and could continue their work. Although I was already sixty years old at the time, still I had the idea that I wanted to make paintings. I had always sketched things for fun and I had watched the activities of my painter relatives. I liked to listen to them when they told stories about famous painters that came, for example, from Japan, France, America. So I began to make real paintings in 1993."
"My paintings depict national traditions and habits that are in decline. I don't want people to forget how life was. My paintings are like a camera of my life of sixty years. I make paintings so that future generations can ponder the question, 'How was life then and how is life now?'"
Svay Ken faithfully attended all the Java exhibitions until he was unable to climb the stairs. He was an exceptional artist and a friend. I will miss him greatly. (Dana) | Java Café & Gallery 56 E1 Sihanouk Blvd
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Tel: 023 987 420
HP: 012 833 512
Open everyday: 7am - 10pm Java Express 56 E1 Sihanouk Blvd
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
HP: 092 289 126
Open Mon - Sat: 7am - 3pm Java TeaRoom (At Monument Books)
111 Norodom Blvd
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
HP: 092 451 462
Open everyday 8am - 8pm www.javaarts.org
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Films @ Meta-House
Dear Friends of Meta House!
Pls be our guest for this week's highlights (program details below) starting with a newly subtitled version of former King Sihanouk's most important film SHADOW OVER ANGKOR (this Tuesday, 7PM).
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Special tip: On SUNDAY, Dec 14, 4PM we are hosting a WALTZ DANCE WORKSHOP. For all those, who always wanted to dance Waltz or Cha Cha Cha, Austrian dance teacher Tina Kodritsch will give free of charge dance classes. Come and join! (Levels: beginners + intermediate.)
Bring your partner and adequate shoes.
Duration: 90 min, incl. a break.
Admission via 012 607 465 or 012 208 347
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C u at Meta House, best regards,
Nico Mesterharm, Lydia Parusol
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TUES, 09/12, 8PM CAMBODIAN FILMMAKER'S NIGHT
7PM "CAMBODIA 1965" Rare Footage from the Palace Archive
8PM "SHADOW OVER ANGKOR" By Hr.R.H. NORODOM SIHANOUK
WED, 10/12, 8 PM EQUITY TV: HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
"Equity Weekly" is a groundbreaking Khmer/English TV program on topics concerning society, politics and economy - financed by UNDP, aired by state channel TVK. For this year's HUMAN RIGHTS DAY the program makers present a selection of doc films on human rights issues in Cambodia.
THUR, 11/12, 8PM "DOGORA"
Khmer Hypnotic: The French film by Patrice Leconte is often called a "street level documentary", that beautifully captures the daily routines of the people of Cambodia accompanied by a majestic classical soundtrack. (80 min, 2004,)
FRI, 12/12 "NEW YEAR BABY" (7 PM in Khmer language, 8PM in English)
A few years ago in Dallas, Texas. After 25 years of attempting to live a "normal American life," Socheata Poeuv's parents revealed a shocking family secret that would draw them all back to Cambodia, the home they fled during the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979. Socheata Poeuv documents the unfurling of her family mystery in a beautiful, strong film.
SAT, 13/12, 6PM "DSCHAUTZE!" by RONALD KODRITSCH (Austria)
Ronald Kodritsch - born 1970 in Austria - attended from 1990 to 1992 the Masters School of Painting in Graz with Gerhard Lojen. Then he moved to Vienna and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna by Gunter Damisch. Study visits took him to London (Chelsea School of Art), Paris, New York and to Asia: In Phnom Penh Kodritsch shows 30 drawings made in China.
On the rooftop, from 7PM: Exciting video art by DEREK JARMAN and BRIAN ENO (VIDEO PAINTINGS )
SUN, 14/12, 8PM: Doc film "WARDANCE"
Set in Northern Uganda, Oscar-nominated documentary WARDANCE tells the story of Dominic, Rose, and Nancy, three children whose families have been torn apart, their homes destroyed, and who currently reside in a displaced persons camp in Patongo. When they are invited to compete in an annual music and dance festival, their historic journey to their nation's capital is also an opportunity to regain a part of their childhood and to taste victory for the first time in their lives.
Ongoing Exhibition until January 05 2009
PP PHOTO FESTIVAL - FRÉDÉRIC LECLOUX - "L'USURE DU MONDE"
(GALLERY OPEN FROM TUESDAY TO SUNDAY, 6PM)
LECTURE @ Reyum: Fri. Dec. 12, 6-7pm by Darryl Collins and Hok Sokol
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Reyum Institute
#47, Street 178, P.O Box: 2438
Phnom Penh – Cambodia
Tel / Fax: 855 23 217 149
Mobile: 855 12 340 338
E-mail: reyum@camnet.com.kh
www.reyum.org
PHOTOPHNOMPENH Vernissage ce soir
Pour plus d'informations, cliquez ici
www.ccf-cambodge.org
Centre Culturel Français du Cambodge
218 rue Kéo Chéa, Phnom Penh, Cambodge
Tel bureau/Office : 855 23 213 124 / 125
Fax bureau/Office : 855 23 721 382
Java Cafe: Exhibition Opening - Night of the Year - Christmas Events
JAVA CAFE & GALLERY NEWSLETTER | Locations | | OPENING 6 - 9PM FRIDAY, 5 DECEMBER 2008 ...a dream, photography by Heng Ravuth Participant in the PhotoPhnomPenh, the first annual photography festival organized in Phnom Penh! Organized the French Cultural Center (more info http://www.ccf-cambodge.org) 
NIGHT OF THE YEAR PhotoPhnomPenh continues all week, check the CCF website (above) for event details. Don't miss the Night of the Year! Featuring photography from around the world on 12 screens in front of Wat Bothum. 
CHRISTMAS AT JAVA Holiday Desserts
Pumpkin Pie - $12
Apple Pie - $15
Gingerbread Cookies - $10/kg
Christmas Cake (brandy-soaked fruit cake) - $19/kg To guarantee availability, please order 1 – 2 days in advance!
Call Java Express Mon – Sat 7am – 3pm, 092 289 126
Make your own Christmas cookies!
Children, ages 4 and up, are invited to Java Express to make their own cookies and join in holiday activities. $2.50 per child, includes hot chocolate, cookies and activities. Walk-ins welcomed, but priority will be given to those who reserve in advance (limited to 20 children per day). Call Java Express Mon – Sat 7am – 3pm, 092 289 126
3pm December 3
3pm December 10
If we receive many reservations we will add more dates!
Christmas Cabaret
AsiaLife's Christmas party at Java Café & Gallery
>From 6pm, 18 December, 2008
Cabaret Show
DJ by Primitive Souls
Christmas themed costumes – prizes for best and worst!
Christmas/New Year's Brunch
Available December 25 - 28 and January 1- 4 at Java Café & Gallery French Toast Cups with Fresh Fruit and Cream
Polenta-egg cups with Balsamic Roasted Grapes and Sausages
Bacon and Cheese Frittata with Mango and Spicy Pecan Salad and Cream Biscuits Call for reservations 012 833 512 or 023 897 420
| Java Café & Gallery 56 E1 Sihanouk Blvd
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Tel: 023 987 420
HP: 012 833 512
Open everyday: 7am - 10pm Java Express 56 E1 Sihanouk Blvd
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
HP: 092 289 126
Open Mon - Sat: 7am - 3pm Java TeaRoom (At Monument Books)
111 Norodom Blvd
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
HP: 092 451 462
Open everyday 8am - 8pm www.javaarts.org
info@javaarts.org | |
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Phnom Penh Photo Fest Features - Prey Lang
Dear Friends
Photographer Paul Stewart's work on Prey Lang is being featured in the
Phnom Penh Photo Festival from 1-7 December at the Phnom Penh Photo
Festival from 2-7 December at the Bodega (near the National Museum at 32
Sothearos Blvd, behind the FCC) on the second floor.
The USAID/EWMI-PRAJ film, Prey Lang: One Forest, One Future, will be
shown on a loop throughout the week, from noon until closing (late)
everyday.
For more information, please go to:
www.mr-bodega.com
Hope to see you there!
Meta-House Update
Dear Friends of Meta House!
We would like to invite you for our new EXHIBITION OPENING
this Tuesday, December 02 @ 6 PM under the roof of the Phnom Penh Photo Festival
FRÉDÉRIC LECLOUX - "L'USURE DU MONDE"
In 1953-54, the Swiss writer Nicolas Bouvier and his painter friend Thierry Vernet travel in a Fiat Topolino from Belgrade to Afghanistan. L'Usure du Monde tells the story of this 17-month journey filled with wonder. Nicolas Bouvier as a traveler is obsessively slow and frugal, but at the same time, he has an insatiable desire for the real and for knowledge. There is an insistent, heady passion for being in the world, but as well, a certain ease and comfort in melancholy. Bouvier the writer has a way of honing in on the comical nature of daily life, and, in three adjectives, managing to give it universal weight. Frédéric Lecloux: "I was so moved by the luminous perfection with which Nicolas Bouvier crystallized this journey in such a perfect economy of words, that I couldn't read anything else for years. I had to exorcize this book. The only response possible was a departure."
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From Dec 3 to Dec 7 META HOUSE presents THE GENDER FILM FESTIVAL
A series of new films on gender issues and women empowerment
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Pls. show ur support, come and join the festival: Program at the bottom of this mail.
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On Wednesday, 8 PM we are hosting a "UXO Special" in coop. with UNDP.
Did you know cluster bombs dropped in Cambodia 30 years ago left around 6 million unexploded bombs that continue to claim the lives and limbs of innocent Cambodians today? Watch short films and hear from experts about the devastating impact of these indiscriminate weapons on the day the historic International Convention to Ban Cluster Munitions is signed in Oslo. Alex Hiniker from UNDP will be present for Q&A.
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GENDER FILMFEST PROGRAM
WED, 03/12, 6 PM: THE GENDERED LENSE: "LUSIA - A DAUGHTER OF FATULULIK"
After a short film on a women's empowerment radio programme, EMPOWERING WOMEN OVER CAMBODIA'S AIRWAVES (2008, 4min), we will present the story of LUSIA- A DAUGHTER OF FATULULIK (2006, 56 min.) Lusia Guterres (24) is a mother of three, member of the opposition party and the the head of her village. Filmmaker Ruth Streicher and Saumura Tioulong (SODECO) will be @ Meta House to discuss women's political participation in Cambodia afterwards in coop. with Heinrich-Boell-Foundation
THUR, 04/12, 8PM "THE POWER TO CHANGE"
Feature film about domestic violence made by GTZ Promotion of Women's Rights in the Ministry of Women's Affairs Cambodia: Sok knows how to be a real man at least he thinks he does. But when his son and family come for a visit and notice his wife Thida's bruises, and the neighbours start to talk about the domestic violence in the home, Sok's whole lifestyle is called into question. Maybe there are other ways of proving his manhood that do not involve the fist
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FRI, 05/12, 8PM "UP THE YANGTZE"
A compelling doc film by Yung Chang about development and dams in modern China seen through the eyes of a girl, who is leaving her family to work on a cruiseliner (2007, 109 min.)
SAT, 06/12, 8PM "FOOTBALL UNDER COVER"
Tehran in April 2006: The first official friendly takes place between the Iranian women's football team and a local Berlin girl's team, in front of more than 1000 cheering female fans. The entire stadium is electric, charged with a high voltage of girl power. A couple of men hang around in front of the gates, trying to sneak a peek over the fence. They are barred from entering today
The documentary "Football Under Cover" (86 min, 2008) turned out to be the surprise tip of this year's Berlin Film Festival. It tells the story behind this unusual meeting between a multicultural women's soccer club from Berlin and the Iranian national women's team. One of the directors, David Assmann, will be there for Q+A afterwards. (Germany, 2008, 86min) in coop. with Heinrich-Boell-Foundation
SUN, 07/12, 8P PERSEPOLIS
Persepolis won the Jury Prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel, this animation movie follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution, which goes horribly wrong with Islamic fundamentalists taking power and creating a new theocratic tyranny themselves. Plus screening of three Khmer animation shorts by Phare Ponleu Selapak
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