Angkor Awakens: A Portrait of Cambodia
May 05, 2017 | IMDB 0
90 min Watch NowDocumentary
A moving psychological portrait of Cambodia decades after a devastating genocide, examining how baksbat (Khmer for "broken courage") continues to impact modern Cambodia.
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