Tea Lim Koun

Tea Lim Koun, a Cambodian filmmaker of Chinese origin, counts among the fathers of Khmer cinema. Dissatisfied to see the country's cinemas show mostly foreign films, he took up directing; his first film was rewarded by Norodom Sihanouk in 1964, and he later received awards for direction in Singapore, in 1972, and in Taiwan, in 1974. As the war halted cinema, he left the country before 1975 for Montreal, where he keeps his films; he presented two of them at the 2012 Berlinale.

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• Feature filmThe Snake King's Wifeពស់កេងកងTea Lim Koun · 1970Cinema