Saturday 4, August - 4pm
@ Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center
Planting Efforts
Produced by Em Sopheak, 14min, 2011 , Khmer version with English subtitles
Planting Effort is a documentary focusing on the educational situation in the rural area. This film shows the effort of the 17 year-old girl, Rim Kim, leading a role model life for other rural students showing how to access education despite her difficulties.
PESTICIDE: The use and impact of pesticide in Cambodian agriculture
Produced by Prak Thida, 11 min, 2011, Khmer version with English subtitles
Cambodian farmers have been using pesticide in both rice and crops in order to increase the productivity. But now it becomes a concern because most of them do not use pesticide in the proper way. By not understanding the instruction on the label, they just learn to use pesticide from their neighbors and sellers. This could lead them to use the pesticide in dangerous way which could affect their health and environment around them.
GREEN ALERT
Directed by Teemour D. Mambety, 22min, 2007, English version
Shot in the magnificent jungle of South East Asia, by the border between Cambodia and Laos, this poetic documentary film invites you to a rendez-vous with grassroots populations nested on the Mekong subriver shores.
