2023
World Premiere: Gothenburg Film Festival 2023, Sweden
In Competition: Best Nordic Documentary
Producer: Mette Cheng
Munthe-Kaas
Co-Producers: Corinne van Egeraat, Marina-Evelina Cracana, Oscar Hedin Hetteberg
Cinematographer:
Zaradasht Ahmed
2nd Unit Cinematographer:
Petr Lom
Editor: Eva Hillström
Production Company:
Ten Thousand Images AS
Co-Production Companies:
ZIN Documentaire,
the Netherlands
Film and Tell, Sweden
Sales: East Village Entertainment, Diana Holtzberg
BONG THOM (THE BROTHER)
Heng lives with his close knit deeply Buddhist family in rural Cambodia, who work hard struggling as farmers. At 6, he lost both his arms in a landmine explosion. Now, as a teenager hanging with the wrong crowd, and no future at the farm, his mother sends him to his older brother, Chana, who makes romantic music videos in the bustling city of Phnom Penh. Here, with a bossy brother, amid a So-Me, “wanna-be” culture, Heng must make it.
Zaradasht Ahmed is an award-winning, 2-time Emmy nominated Kurdish/Norwegian Filmmaker. He was born and raised in Northern Iraq. His previous work includes the award-winning “Road to Diyarbakir” and “Fata Morgana”. His latest film “Nowhere to Hide” is critically acclaimed and in addition to being nominated for 2 Emmy-Awards has won over 20 international prizes including Best Feature Length Documentary at IDFA (2016), Best Documentary at the One World Human Rights Festival (2017), the Audience Award at Thessaloniki Film Festival (2017), the Nestor Almendros Prize for courage in filmmaking at the Human Rights Watch FF (New York 2017), the Citizen Journalists prize from Traverse City FF (2017), and the Norwegian AMANDA for Best Documentary (2017). Zaradasht has many years of experience working with documentary filmmaking in the Middle East, North-Africa, and Asian regions, as well as experience training locals in documentation.
