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Dear Film Friends!

The new week at Meta House is starting with a BROADCAST FROM THE JUNGLE: This TUE, 26/10, 7PM we are presenting NEW INDIGENOUS MEDIA FROM RATTANAKIRI. More than 20 distinct ethnic groups are living in Cambodia's isolated mountain areas. In 2010, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) piloted a project to support the formation of Village Disaster Management Teams in Rattanakiri & Mondulkiri. The new documentary "RISING ABOVE NATURAL DISASTERS" (2010, 16mins) by Ian White looks at the process and impact of village team creation, as IOM helped indigenous communities plan and prepare to respond to potential natural disasters. IOM reps will hold a Q&A.

Also screening: "FOREST MOUNTAIN VOICES" – a community media project based in Rattanakiri and staffed entirely by youth from the Tampeun, Jarai, and Kreung tribes.

Pls. visit us also for the following events

WED, 27/10
"THE ART OF STEAL": WHO CONTROLS THE 25 BILLION DOLLAR COLLECTION?
7PM: Money, power, race, a mansion stuffed with treasure, a city plagued by scandal: "THE ART OF STEAL" (2009, 101mins) is a hard-hitting documentary about a high-cultural brawl. Director Don Argott chronicles the long and dramatic struggle for control of the "Barnes Foundation" in Philadelphia/USA. This private collection is valued at more than 25 billion US Dollars, including 181 Renoirs, 69 Cézannes, 60 Matisses 44 Picassos and 14 Modiglianis. In 1922, Dr. Albert C. Barnes formed this remarkable educational institution. Now, more than 50 years after Barnes' death, a powerful group of moneyed interests have gone to court for control of the art.

THUR, 28/10
CAMBODIA AFTER POL POT: DEATH, REBIRTH AND "CONSCIENCE OF NHEM EM"
7PM: Documentaries by Khmer and international filmmakers focus on Pol Pot's legacy. The M.E.T.A. doc film THE PEPPERFIELDS: FROM GENOCIDE TO GLOBALIZATION is followed by "KAMPUCHEA: DEATH AND REBIRTH" (1979, 90mins). The first documentary after KR was shot by famous GDR filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann. The scenes filmed during spring 1979 are part of history: Phnom Penh left to rampant nature, heaps of skulls and destroyed faces. THE CONSCIENCE OF NHEM EM (2008, 26mins) was nominated for an Oscar. US director Steven Okazaki focuses on Toul Sleng prison photographer Nhem En and tells the story of the havoc, that Pol Pot's reign wrecked on Cambodians.

FRI, 29/10
MEET THE FILMMAKERS AT META: "BATTLE FOR LIFE" AND "DEACON OF DEATH"
7PM: Wat Opod is a community center for people living with HIV/AIDS in Takeo province. There Nico Mesterharm directed the documentary "BATTLE FOR LIFE" (2003, 30mins). In 2010 Andy Gray produced a short film with Wat Opod kids. After the screenings directors, main protagonist and Wat Opod founder Wayne Mathisse will hold a Q&A. 8PM: "DEACON OF DEATH" is a remarkable film by Jan van den Berg & Willem van de Put. A Cambodian woman confronts the man whom she holds responsible for the death of her family and other villagers under Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime when she was a child. Film will be presented by Chan Theary, who participated in the production.

SAT, 30/10
"NO PLACE FOR PEADOPHILES": WEIRD TELE-TRAVELS WITH LOUIS THEROUX
7PM: Louis Theroux is the youngest son of the American writer Paul Theroux. The British-US broadcaster is best known for his Gonzo style journalism. After working with Michael Moore the BBC commissioned him to star in his own films. Tonight we are screening "NO PLACE FOR PAEDOPHILES" (2008, 60mins) about the Coalinga State Hospital in California, where sex offenders are treated. In "LOUIS AND THE NAZIS" (2003, 79mins) Theroux follows white American nationalists and and singing twin girls known as "Prussian Blue". For "LAW AND ORDER IN JOHANNESBURG" (200, 60mins) he travels to South Africa, where residents find themselves increasingly besieged by crime.

SUN, 31/10
CAMBODIA'S ROYAL CINEMA NIGHT: NORODOM SIHANOUK'S BIRTHDAY PARTY
7PM: Australian filmmaker Jim Gerrand has produced a fascinating two-part film study of Cambodia/Kampuchea. "THE PRINCE AND THE PROPHECY" (1986, 78mins) explores the years of Prince Norodom Sihanouk's rule, his charisma and contradictions. Following the Prince's overthrow in 1970, the film traces Cambodia's destruction during the five years of war before Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge came to power. As a central theme, the film and its sequel "CAMBODIA/KAMPUCHEA" (1986, 57mins) feature exclusive interviews with Prince Sihanouk, and focus on his pivotal role in shaping Cambodia's fate. At 9.30PM we are screening Sihanouk's film "SHADOW OVER ANGKOR" (1969, 110mins).