synopsis
The suffering of the people in the Khmer Rouge’s prisons was undoubtedly immeasurable. Even decades after the fall of one of the cruellest regimes in history, messages and drawings remain etched on the walls of the former cells in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It is as though the whispers of those lost forever remain, full of poetic defiance in the face of destruction.“My work explores the intersection of memory, spatial history, and visual poetics.” — Xiang Ding
Source: FilmFreeway
biography
Xiang Ding is a Chinese filmmaker who studied architecture at Central Saint Martins in London. Since 2019, she has been working in documentary and experimental film, focusing in her work on themes of memory, spatial history and visual poetics. She is currently studying film at RUFA in Rome.film details
| director: | Xiang Ding |
| producer: | Chuhui Luo, Xiang Ding |
| photography: | Xiang Ding |
| editing: | Xiang Ding |
| sound design: | Nian Xiongyin |
contact
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Film at festival
| premiere type: | International Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2026 |
| section: | Short Joy |
| language: | English, Khmer |
| subtitles: | Czech, English |
| colour: | Colour |
Info
| director: | Xiang Ding |
| original title: | 墙壁低语 |
| country: | China, Cambodia, Italy |
| year: | 2025 |
| running time: | 9 min. |
