Sunrise in my mind
Film preview screening by San Danech
Saturday, 24 July 2021, 6:00 – 7:00 PM
Sa Sa Art Projects
Pich, a young woman working at a beauty salon in Phnom Penh, spends most of her nights at work chatting and gossiping with her coworkers and customers. One night, she gives into her restrained interest in Lay, a young man who spends his evenings driving Phnom Penh's streets by motorbike as a delivery man. They share an unspoken desire, an impatient encounter, and the strange realization of mutual attraction.
About filmmaker
SAN Danech - Director (b. 1991, Battambang, Cambodia) Danech has worked in film production on a variety of projects with Anti-Archive since 2015, including as casting assistant and assistant production manager on Diamond Island (Davy Chou, SACD Award, Cannes Critics’ Week 2016), and production manager on Last Night I Saw You Smiling (Kavich Neang, NETPAC Award, Rotterdam 2019). She has also worked on documentary programs produced for UNICEF and BBC Media Action. Her first narrative short film, A Million Years, won Best Southeast Asian Short at Singapore International Film Festival 2018 and the Arte Award at Kurzfilm Hamburg 2019, resulting in the film's broadcast on Arte TV in early 2020. Her second short fiction, Sunrise in My Mind, premiered at Busan in 2020 and has screened at Berlin Critics’ Week and Fribourg International Film Festival in 2021. She has just completed a documentary short film titled Sea within a Sea, about marine conservation around Cambodia’s Koh Sdach island.
