NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2022 (April 20-May 1, 2022)

[Chris Knipp]

WHITE BUILDING/BODENG SAR (Kavich Neang 2021

A beautiful, slow-moving autobiographical family portrait from Cambodia centering on a young man with dance ambitions whose family is getting pushed out of the old low-rise White Buliding, home to many artists and teachers, which is giving way to Phnom Penh's rapid, heedless development. Tellingly, this film, produced by the French Films du Losange, is coproduced by Jia Zhang-ke. This is a serene gem - it's silences are the best parts of it - that won its young star, Piseth Chhun, the best actor award in Venice's Orizzonti section last year. Neang has chronicled the building where he and his family lived (destroyed in 2017) in short films.

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Thursday, April 21
6:00pm, FLC Walter Reade Theater (Q&A with Kavich Neang)
Friday, April 22
6:00pm, MoMA T2 (Q&A with Kavich Neang)