Ly Bun Yim

Over three million Cambodians died in the genocide between 1975 and 1979. The Khmer Rouge’s reign of terror also decimated a homegrown film industry that had flourished since 1960: movie theaters were bombed, film prints were destroyed and artists were executed. In Golden Slumbers, French-Cambodian filmmaker Davy Chou mourns this loss of lives and culture, but balances the somber material with a playfulness that honors the lush melodramas and mythic adventures of the glory years.

Sovan Kesor, faithful to a promise made in her previous life, never speaks to men; so the king, her father, decides to marry her to a man who is able get her to talk to men.

Sovan Kesor, faithful to a promise made in her previous life, never speaks to men; so the king, her father, decides to marry her to a man who is able get her to talk to men.

The film is a melodramatic love-triangle between Chea and Sou over a woman named Orn.

Based on the "dove hunters" fairy tale

Twelve sisters who escaped at the start of their human-eating mother, are marry at the same time the king. But the ogress craves revenge and deceives the king as an attractive woman. The ogress ensures that the twelve sisters lose their eyesight and are imprisoned in a cave. Where they eat their own children to survive. Only the little Puthisen, the son of the youngest sister, is spared. Puthisen grows then into the cave from child to young man. As a young adult he decides to liberate his mother and the eleven aunts.