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Chou’s Diamond Island wins prize in Cannes


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French-Cambodian filmmaker Davy Chou’s feature Diamond Island has won the SACD prize at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival’s International Critics’ Week sidebar.

The award, chosen by members of the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques – which comes with a €5,000 ($5,610) prize – was announced on Friday.

Diamond Island is a coming of age story about 18-year-old Bora who leaves his village in Kampong Chhnang to work on the construction sites of Koh Pich (Diamond Island) in Phnom Penh where he encounters his estranged older brother who introduces him to the world of Cambodia’s emerging middle-class youth.

read more http://www.phnompenhpost.com/lifestyle/chous-diamond-island-wins-prize-cannes

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