PHNOM PENH LULLABY

KOŁYSANKA Z PHNOM PENH

Everyone holds a secret. The secret of the future. “Phnom Penh lullaby” is an intimate story of a man looking for love and acceptance. Ilan Schickman left Israel dreaming of a new life. He now lives in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with his Khmer girlfriend Saran and daughters Marie, 2 years old, and Jasmine, 6 months, trying to make ends meet as a street fortune-teller.

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  • Genre: Dokumentalny
  • Running time: 103
  • Year: 2011

Director: Paweł Kloc

Script: Paweł Kloc, Przemysław Niczyporuk

DOP: Przemysław Niczyporuk

Music: Marc Marder

Editing: Jacek Tarasiuk

Production company: Parallax

About the director:

Paweł Kloc

Paweł Kloc

He was born in 1971. He studied Law at the Warsaw University. Paweł worked for HBO and At Entertainment Ltd as a producer and director. He directed commercials, music videos and tv programs. He was awarded for Nationale Nederlanden commercial at the Euroshots festival and for his short feature “Dos Sombras” at the RealHeart festival in Toronto. He has also an Eave graduate. “Phnom Penh Lullaby” is his first feature lenght documentary film produced with his production company Parallax.

At festivals:

17th Festival International de Cinema VISIONS DU RÉEL, Switzerland, 2011 (competition)

Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival, 2011 (competition)

Sheffield Doc/Fest, UK, 2011 (competition)

33th Moscow International Film Festival, Russia, 2011 (screening)

18th European Film Festival Palić, Serbia, 2011 (screening)

31st San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2011 (screening)

International Documentary and Short Film Festival - Dokufest, Kosovo, 2011 (competition)

15th DocuWeeks, USA, 2011 (competition)

16th Split Film Festival, Croatia, 2011 (screening)

Reykjavik International Film Festival, 2011 (competition)

Reykjavik International Film Festival, Iceland, 2011 (screening)

7th Camden International Film Festival, 2011 (competition)

9. Festival International Signes de Nuit, France, 2011 (competition)

54th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film - DOK Leipzig, 2011 (Honorary Mention)

15th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2011 (screening)

MiradasDoc Festival, Spain, 2011 (competition)

6th Human Rights Film Festival PRAVO LJUDSKI, Bosnia and Hercegovina, 2011 (competition)

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), The Netherlands, 2011 (screening)

19th PLUS CAMERIMAGE, Poland, 2011 (competition)

23rd Trieste Film Festival, Italy, 2012 (competition)

DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Finland, 2012 (screening)

DocsBarcelona – International Documentary Film Festival, Spain, 2012 (competition)

ZAGREBDOX International Documentary Film Festival, Croatia, 2012 (competition)

Tempo Documentary Festival, Stockholm, Sweden, 2012 (competition)

Millenium International Documentary Film Festival in Brussels, Belgium, 2012 (competition)

Pärnu Film Festival, Estonia, 2012 (competition)

12th Astra Film Festival, Romania, 2012 (Astra Film Grand Prize)

VERZIO International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Hungary, 2012 (screening)

DocsDF 2012, Mexico, 2012 (screening)

Cine Doc Tbilisi, Georgia, 2013 (Special Jury Award)

iDOCS International Documentary Film Forum, China, 2014 (competition)