Saturday, December 11, 4 pm
@ Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center
The Secret Contract
A film by Seng Setha, Produced by The Department of Cambodian Cinema and Diffusion, 75 min, 1991, Khmer Version
Salideth, a Cambodian residing in France during the Khmer rouge regime, returns to Cambodia in 1990s. Salideth, in France, is helped and supported by an old and rich Cambodian man who lost his son during the Khmer rouge regime. Salideth returns to Cambodia and tries to find his son for him. Using a photo of the young boy with a handwritten signature on the back, Salideth is advised to meet a girl working at Post Office in an attempt to find the similar signature.
Screened at the Cambodia International Film Festival in October 2010