6 Mar - Having made a name for itself as one of the biggest film festivals in Cambodia, the Cambodia International Film Festival (CIFF) is returning for its 9th edition this March. This year, the annual film festival will take place from 9 to 14 March 2019, across nine venues around Phnom Penh. Malaysia will be represented at CIFF 2019 by three titles in different segments of the film festival. James Lee's 2018 action thriller "Kill-Fist" has been selected for screening under the International Feature Films segment.
CIFF 2019 will present a selection of over 120 films from 37 countries including international feature films, short films, documentaries, and animations. As usual, tickets will be provided on a first come, first served basis one hour before each screening, with last-minute tickets priced at USD1.25. Some of the other prominent pictures to screen at this year's CIFF include Angelina Jolie's "First They Killed My Father" (2017), Caylee So and Sok Visal's "In The Life of Music" (2018), Denis Do's "Funan" (2018), Rithy Panh's "The Missing Picture" (2013) and "Graves Without a Name" (2018), Jimmy Henderson's "The Prey" (2018) and Peter Farrelly's Oscar-winning feature "Green Book" (2018). There will also be special highlight sections for the Philippine and Swedish cinema, and a retrospective glance at the fall of the Khmer Rouge Regime forty years ago.