After a golden age of cinema in the 1960s, the Cambodian film industry suffered during the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, under which entertainment and arts were dismantled. In the 1980s and 1990s, the industry started making a gradual, slow comeback. Foreign films highlighting the country, such as The Killing Fields, Tomb Raider have helped boost these efforts. During the 60’s and early 70’s as the war in Vietnam threatened its borders, a new music scene emerged in Cambodia that took Western rock and roll and stood it on its head – creating a sound like no other.…

After a golden age of cinema in the 1960s, the Cambodian film industry suffered during the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, under which entertainment and arts were dismantled. In the 1980s and 1990s, the industry started making a gradual, slow comeback. Foreign films highlighting the country, such as The Killing Fields, Tomb Raider have helped boost these efforts. In The Missing Picture, writer-director Rithy Panh takes on a daunting and emotionally draining topic—the atrocities Cambodians suffered under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge—and presents it in a beautiful,…

Books & Cinema continues its summer film series spotlighting Haitian identity issues in the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic with the award-winning documentary My Father’s Land, and a short fictional film, Purgatorio. Tickets are $12. In partnership with the Miami Book Fair’s ReadCaribbean program and O Cinema, Ayiti Images is presenting a compelling pair of films that explore immigration through the perspective of Haitians living in the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic.…