Filmmaker Documents Change and Loss in Cambodia
08/25/2013
"A River Changes Course" shows the impact of development.
Hi, and welcome to As It Is. I’m Kelly Jean Kelly.
Today Mario Ritter is taking us to Cambodia, in Southeast Asia.
A Cambodian-American filmmaker named Kalyanee Mam spent several years making a movie in Cambodia. The movie is a documentary called “A River Changes Course.” It tells the story of three young people, and how life is changing for them. One of the young people is Sari Math. When the documentary begins, Sari is 14-years- old and fishing with his father.
Kalyanee Mam describes the scene.
“You can see the hands, you can see the nets, and you can feel the waves, you know, crashing against the boat.”
Sari Math and his family live on a floating village in the middle of a river. The river is very unusual. Every year it changes direction. During the rainy season it flows one way. During the dry season it flows the other way.
“I found it’s the perfect metaphor for what is happening in Cambodia right now. You know, all the changes that are happening, and all the development that’s taking place. There’s a bit of uncertainty—actually not a bit, but a lot of uncertainty for people right now in Cambodia about what’s going to happen to them and what course their lives will take.”
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