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Sisowath quay

Phnom Penh. Nakry and Sothear meet on the Sisowath quay for their first date. At nightfall, the romance turns into a nightmare when the young girl transforms into a strange creature…

  • Stephanie Lansaque
    Director
  • François Leroy
    Director
  • Stephanie Lansaque
    Writer
  • François Leroy
    Writer
  • Gladys De Micheli
    Producer
  • Stephanie Lansaque
    Producer
  • François Leroy
    Producer
  • Stephanie Lansaque
    Animation
  • François Leroy
    Animation
  • Stephanie Lansaque
    Editing
  • François Leroy
    Editing
  • Denis Vautrin
    Music
  • Sinn Sisamouth, Huoy Meas
    Additional music
  • Yann Lacan
    Sound design, Sound editing
  • Pech Socheata
    Voice cast
  • Morm Sok Ly
    Voice cast
  • Sin Sovan Oudom
    Voice cast
  • Pay Bunarat
    Voice cast
  • Stephanie Lansaque
    Graphic design
  • François Leroy
    Graphic design
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Quai Sisowath
  • Project Type:
    Animation
  • Genres:
    Horror, fantasy
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes 31 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 1, 2025
  • Language:
    Central Khmer
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16/9 (1:77)
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Stephanie Lansaque, François Leroy

Stephanie Lansaque: Born in 1978, in Marseille (France)
François Leroy: Born in 1978, in Caen (France)
In 2002, François and Stephanie traveled to Asia for the first time. They loved the atmosphere so much that they decided to collaborate on their first film, Goodbye Mister Chu. This was followed by three other short films set in Vietnam (Red River Sông Hông, Cold Coffee, and Cadavre Exquis) and two in Hong Kong (Mei Ling, The Awakening of the Insects). With Sisowath quay, their seventh film, they placed their camera in Cambodia for the first time. Since 2002, they have shared their lives between Paris and Asia.
Biography:
Goodbye Mister Chu (14’18, 2005), Mei Ling (15’, 2009), Red River, Sông Hông (14’52, 2012), Cold Coffee (14’44, 2015), Cadavre Exquis (12’05, 2018), The Awakening of the Insects (14’04, 2021).

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Director Statement

Intentions

Health, social and environmental realities

During our last stay in Cambodia at the beginning of 2020 (we have stayed many times there since 2004), the deterioration of the health situation and the insalubrity shocked us to the point that we decided to make it one of the central themes of our movie.

While environmental and ecological issues have gained attention in the West, we are not necessarily aware of the extent of the public health problems that waste management poses in emerging countries.
Unsanitary conditions, risk of fire, proliferation of diseases are all mortal dangers that poor populations, already victims of numerous inequalities, are confronted with.
Despite economic growth, Cambodia remains a country deeply marked by these inequalities which, far from disappearing, tend to increase.

The problem of waste is emblematic of these disparities.
Covered with flies, populated by rats and stray cats, heaps of pestilential rubbish rot in the sun in the streets of Phnom Penh.
Because of the lack of political will, the situation is deteriorating at an alarming pace. Garbage collectors, very few and underpaid, work in deplorable hygiene conditions.
Poverty pushes Cambodians to rummage through these disgusting heaps of garbage to pick up recyclable waste (aluminum cans, cardboard boxes, plastic bottles) that they will resell by weight to wholesalers.