A MILLION YEARS

Directed by Danech SAN

ARTE SHORT FILM AWARD - INTERNATIONALES KURZFILM FESTIVAL HAMBURG 2019
BEST SOUTHEAST ASIAN SHORT FILM - SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2018
TELEVISION & ONLINE BROADCAST 2020 - ARTE (FRANCE, GERMANY, BELGIUM, LUXEMBOURG, SWITZERLAND, LIECHTENSTEIN, AUSTRIA)

NORTH AMERICAN & USA PREMIERE - NEW DIRECTORS / NEW FILMS 2019
EUROPEAN PREMIERE - VOICES SHORTS - INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF ROTTERDAM 2019
WORLD PREMIERE - WIDE ANGLE COMPETITION - BUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2018

A young woman relaxes at a riverfront restaurant with a friend. She recounts her past experiences, finding enchantment in the flows of the river and the trees on the mountains nearby. Strangely, she enters a parallel riverfront with a stranger. They recount stories of fear until she finds herself realizing her existence beyond time, space or reality.

Cambodia | 2018 | Fiction | Color | DCP | 1.85 | 24fps | 21 min

Starring: Marie Thach, Piseth Tha, Bandiddh (Ero) Prum
Director: Danech San
Writer: Danech San
Producers: Davy Chou, Park Sungho
Production Coordinator: Daniel Mattes
Production Company: Anti-Archive
Associate Producers: Steve Chen, Kavich Neang
Director of Photography: Douglas Seok
Gaffer: Bertrand Prévot
Sound: Vincent Villa
Editor: Machima (Ohm) Ungsriwong
Post-Production: White Light Post
Post-Production Supervisor: Lee Chatametikool
Art Direction: Kanitha Tith
Assistant Director: Socheata Van
Script Supervisor: Sreylin Meas
Production Manager: Lyna Kourn

FESTIVALS AND EVENTS

Supernature - Concorto Film Festival 2021, Piacenza, Italy
Light of Asia Shorts Competition - Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2019, Indonesia
Tayangan BMW Shorties - Urbanscapes - REXKL - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
International Shorts Competition - Festival du Nouveau Cinema 2019, Montreal, Canada
Shorts Competition - Tacoma Film Festival 2019, Tacoma, WA, USA
S-Express Cambodia - Bali International Short Film Festival 2019, Bali, Indonesia
Rijksakademie Public Program, "Animistic Apparatus", Amsterdam, Netherlands
International Competition - SEA Shorts 2019, Malacca, Malaysia
S-Express Cambodia - Wathann Film Festival 2019, Yangon, Myanmar
Official Selection - Cambodia Town Film Festival 2019, Long Beach, CA, USA
Official Selection - Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival 2019, Malaysia
Open Doors - Locarno Film Festival 2019, Switzerland
International Competition - Internationales Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg 2019, Germany
International Shorts Competition - IndieLisboa 2019, Lisbon, Portugal
Shorts - Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2019, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Travelling Waves - SGIFF - Bangkok, Thailand; Jakarta, Indonesia; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Shorts - New Directors / New Films 2019, New York, NY, USA
Focus: Southeast Asian Delights - Short Waves 2019, Poznan, Poland
Voices Shorts - International Film Festival of Rotterdam 2019, Netherlands
Southeast Asian Shorts Competition - Singapore International Film Festival 2018
Wide Angle Asian Shorts Competition - Busan International Film Festival 2018, Korea

This film was funded with the generous support of over 300 individual donors through a crowdfunding campaign set up on Indiegogo.com for the "Echoes from Tomorrow" project.

Executive Producers: Nicholas Chee, Casey Dobson, Catherine Garzio, Brandon Hashimoto, Piyaporn Indageha, Sherry Miller, Mok Rotha, Kyun Se Seok, Satoshi Sugano, and Nina You

The films of "Echoes from Tomorrow" have received support from the Cambodia Film Commission, the Cinema and Cultural Diffusion Department of the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, Cambodia, SOYO, Sabay Entertainment, and PSE-I School of Media.

pRESS

(Video) Rencontre avec Danech San, Realisatrice de "A Million Years" / Arte / 15 February 2020

Young filmmakers train a fresh lens on a turbulent Cambodia / Los Angeles Times / 27 August 2019

Reclaiming the Personal / Ryan Lim / SGIFF Youth Jury and Critics Program / Youth Meets Film / 12 December 2018

SGIFF: Singapore's 'A Land Imagined' Wins Silver Screen Award / Variety / 8 December 2018

Yeo Siew Hua's A Land Imagined first local movie named Best Film at Silver Screen Awards / Straits Times / 8 December 2018

Programme 3: Strictly for those with an identity crisis, so basically everyone / Brandon Chua / SGIFF Youth Jury and Critics Program / Youth Meets Film / 28 November 2018

Cambodia's Anti-Archive Film Initiative Boosts Local Helmers / Variety / 8 October 2018

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