107 min - Drama | Thriller |

A must-see feature movie: High school teacher, Rainer Wegner, may be popular with the students, but he's also unorthodox. He's forced to teach autocracy for the school's project week. He forces the students to become more invested in the prospect of self rule, and soon the class project has its own power and eerily starts to resemble Germany's past. Can Wegner and his class realize what's happening before the horrors start repeating themselves?

Inspired by a 1960's social experiment in California documenting how easy it is to influence individuals. The film parallels to the effect of Hitler’s Third Reich within its members, as it clearly expresses the extent of loyalties that may arise in such occasions.

This movie is dazzling, provocative, controversial, mind blowing, intriguing and points out interesting discussions. Even more important: it urges viewers to look into their own lives and make comparisons of their realities and see what works and what doesn't works. Would these experiments have worked in my country? What kind of person I'd be?

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbTkdqYivuw

Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary, WAR PHOTOGRAPHER (2001, 96 mins, English/German, English subs) is the compelling portrait of the man considered the most important war photographer of our time, James Nachtwey.

Overseas Press Club of Cambodia proudly presents this film by Swiss director Christian Frei, who followed Nachtwey around the world, uncovering compassionate and unsettling images from some of the most incendiary spots on the globe includig the Kosovo, Indonesia and the West Bank.

Frei has created an enthralling yet solemn film about the renowned photographer's daily routine and also his primary motivations, fears and beliefs.

It's advised to make reservations for this screening. 121 min - Comedy | Drama | War |

A new Disc Jockey (Robin Williams) is shipped from Crete to Vietnam to bring humor to the US Armed Forces Radio. He turns the studio on its ear and becomes wildly popular with the troops but runs afoul of the middle management who think he isn't G.I. enough. While he is off the air, he tries to meet Vietnamese especially girls, and begins to have brushes with the real war that never appears on the radio.

Vietnam was without a doubt a dark period in American history. Any comedy film surrounding Vietnam would indeed have to be done delicately. This movie pulls that off. What amazes most about the film is the flawless, improvisational radio dialog from Robin Williams. This, as most of you may know, was completely unscripted to allow Williams an opportunity to work his magic of improvisation. Also, it had to be timely, for the movie is set in 1965. The supporting cast is incredible with great performances by Forrest Whitaker, Bruno Kirby, and the late J.T. Walsh as "Sergeant Major Dickerson", the man you will love to hate.

Although some of the horror that was Vietnam is in here: it's only giving you a taste of it, as it concentrates more on Williams character's quest to make our beloved soldiers forget their horror for a while.

The highly experienced Kate Liana will be your core strengthening training (pilates) teacher for one hour, every Tuesday and Thursday at 6.30am AND 12.30am.

Classes take place in the air conditioned room of The Flicks Community Movie House on Street 95 (between Str 310 and 360) and costs only $5 per hour.

Please sign up for your desired class(es) through the website at www.theflicks-cambodia.com/classes.php as we can only have a maximum of 10 participants per class.

In a coded manner, Ben Thynal looks at the selfish nature of human relationships from the familial to the religious. By referring to his “family” Thynal immediately suggests something intimate and personal, but alludes to society as a whole. Unapologetically, he discards the “politically correct” view and looks critically at how families often manipulate and exploit each other for personal gain, the pretense of religious rituals and even the abuse of corruption.

“When even one person acts selfishly, it hurts everyone,” Thynal explains.

One painting, titled “Immoral,” depicts a mother with long snake-like arms trying to catch children out of the air while a “thought bubble” is filled with playing cards. The mother preys upon her own children to make money that she only wastes by gambling. Another shows a tightly wound group of people trapped in a circular formation—their smiling faces purposely misleading when paired with the title “Monster Family.” In “Balance” several intertwined figures that represent a network of self-serving individuals fill an egg-like shape that balances on another small egg and small red circle resting precariously on a thin line.

In each of the paintings, the cartoon-like figures belie the menacing subject and hint at the contradiction between one’s inner nature and the external expression.

Thynal, part of the new generation of outspoken and critical artists, has explored several themes that are socially-focused including landmines, the environment and the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge. He works as an art teacher at Mith Samlanh, one of the leading NGOs working with vulnerable youth and their communities. He graduated from Phare Ponleu Selpak (Battambang) in 2006 and his work has been exhibited in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. This will be his second solo show.

Viewing hours: every day 7am – 10pm

“The Illusion of Permanence” - Reflecting on Cambodia as it emerges from years of broken infrastructure and into a new economic and social future, Sallyanne Morgan’s sculptures are an observation of current lives and past traditions with an underlying uncertainty for what may yet come.

During times of change, we often turn to familiar customs and as an artist Sallyanne looks at the different symbols and rituals that define and guide the individual through this process.

Viewing hours: every day 7am – 10pm

Latin Dance Night at Equinox every Tuesday.

Free Bachata class from 9-9.30pm. Followed by social dancing and dancing activities

TWO. Doubles. Twins. Couples. 2. You know what we mean (drink promotions too!). Two DJ’s playing – each mixes 1 song, back and forth…

DJ Achaya is playing everything from Progressive House, Brazilian Samba to Punjabi beats.

The artist Mea Sokhorn presents a work consisting in many colorful paintings while, at the center, a thick volume of paintings on each other flattens, so that these art works are transformed into a single one. Through this installation, he gives us a his contradicting view on art.

Open from 8am to 6pm.

Through his use of color, Em Riem renews, with brilliance, his artistic expression, whose eclecticism constantly nourishes his style, which skillfully mixes the creative freedom of the painter with the formal rigor of the designer.

Viewing hours: 11am - 7pm.

The Halo of the Omnipresent Eye by Than Sok is a solo exhibition presenting interactive sculptures and installations through which the artist seeks to provoke questions around the practice of monetary alms-giving in Cambodia while playfully drawing connections between the roles of monastics and artists.

Although some monks commit to permanent vows, monkhood in Cambodia is traditionally considered a right of passage in which young males are expected to serve temporary terms intended as merit-building activities for parents. Due in part to a shift in almsgiving practices in which laity replace food with cash offerings - a practice antagonistic to precepts meant to prevent monks from indulgences including the handling of money - many young men can now consider monkhood as an opportunity to escape poverty, relocate to urban centers, participate in secular education, and are seen as participating in laic life before disrobing. Still, alms remain a central practice and symbol of the sangha, or Buddhist community, and provide the opportunity for givers to earn merit for a better rebirth.

The Halo of the Omnipresent Eye stages the artist’s own alms scenarios in the gallery. To Give Is To Receive I and II (2012) reconfigure materials and forms used in exchanges between monks and laity. The pair of alms stations are presided over by representational halos associated with divine knowing – a reminder that intention, the source of good or bad action, which is invisible, is “visible” via its karmic effect.

Than Sok (born 1984, Takeo) investigates religious and spiritual beliefs, materials, and rituals through sculpture, installation, video and performance. Than graduated from Reyum Art School (2005), Reyum Workshop (2007) and is currently studying architecture.

Opening Hours: Thurs/Fri 2-6pm, Sat/Sun 10am-6pm Location: SA SA BASSAC #18 2nd Floor, Sothearos Boulevard Web: www.sasabassac.com