Rithy Panh, We Are the Fruits of the Forest, 2026
Saturday, May 2, 2026
11:30 am | LeFrak Theater
North American Premiere
Director: Rithy Panh
2025 | 87 min | Cambodia, France
From Academy Award nominee Rithy Panh, Cambodia’s foremost filmmaker, comes a portrait of the Indigenous Bunong people, tracing their deep connection to ancestral traditions and the natural world. As pressures of modernity, climate change, and global development encroach, the community navigates a fragile balance between continuity and change, development and alienation. Weaving archival ethnographic material with lyrical contemporary images, the film moves fluidly between memory and observation, offering a layered reflection on time, belonging, and resilience.
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