Rous Mony

Acting

Rous Mony

Acting credits

First They Killed My Father poster
7.4

A 5-year-old girl embarks on a harrowing quest for survival amid the sudden rise and terrifying reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

First They Killed My Father

2017

Wish You Were Here poster
5.6

Four friends lose themselves in a carefree South-East Asian holiday. Only three come back. Dave and Alice return home to their young family desperate for answers about Jeremy's mysterious disappearance. When Alice's sister Steph returns not long after, a nasty secret is revealed about the night her boyfriend went missing. But it is only the first of many. Who amongst them knows what happened on that fateful night when they were dancing under a full moon in Cambodia?

Wish You Were Here

2012

Jailbreak poster
5.7

What started as a simple escort mission will soon turn to chaos as the prisoners of Koh Kla take over the prison grounds. A special task force gets trapped in the prison will have to fight their way out for survival, to protect a key witness.

Jailbreak

2017

The Prey poster
5.1

An innocent man sentenced to rot in a Cambodian jail is released for the sadistic pleasure of twisted trophy hunters and forced to fight - or die.

The Prey

2018

Buoyancy poster
7.1

An innocent Cambodian boy is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he starts to wonder if his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.

Buoyancy

2019

Sound of the Night poster
NR

Vibol and his brother Kea sell noodles on a motorized cart every night on the streets of Phnom Penh. They often face troublesome threats from gangsters and thieves, even if these very people are their only customers. As the city is growing around them, they consider their unstable income and imagine a different future.

Sound of the Night

2021

Tenement poster
5.6

Following her mother’s death, manga artist Soriya travels to her ancestral home in Phnom Penh, with hopes of reconnecting with her distant family and using the visit as inspiration for her work. All goes well initially. Renting an apartment in Metta, a rundown Khmer Rouge-era housing complex, her visit to her maternal relatives finds her welcomed with open arms. But Soriya’s waking hours in the apartment and its surroundings are punctuated by terrifying, bloody visions, almost as though she were a conduit for horrors of the past wanting to seep into the present.

Tenement

2024

Hex poster
4.0

A couple's holiday romance is thrown into chaos as they are afflicted by a malicious force.

Hex

2018

No artwork available
6.8

A lost film, buried beneath Cambodia's killing fields, reveals different versions of the truth. A contemporary story about love, family and the ghosts of Cambodia's past.

The Last Reel

2014

Mind Cage poster
NR

A psychiatrist struggles to defeat superstition and old beliefs when a disgraced traditional healer threatens to tear his world apart.

Mind Cage

2016

Gems on The Run poster
NR

As children in the late ’90s, three friends Rith, Sovan and Dara promised one another that they’d grow old together, working at a restaurant on the beach. But circumstances have separated them, and 15 years later, Dara’s death brings Rith, now a police officer, and Sovan , a gangster, together again. They are travelling through southern Cambodia, and Sovan is carrying $3 million worth of diamonds – without Rith’s knowledge.

Gems on The Run

2013

The Last Home poster
NR

When Chan Nari, a devoted mother and wife, visits her parents’ newly purchased home in a remote Cambodian province, she senses something is deeply wrong. The house, eerily shaped like a triangle, seems to whisper secrets of an unsettling past. As strange occurrences begin to plague her family—shadows shifting in the corners, whispers in the night—Nari encounters a mysterious woman who warns her that the land is cursed. At first, Nari dismisses the warnings, but her skepticism turns to terror when she begins witnessing horrifying visions and unexplainable phenomena. Desperate for answers, she digs into the house’s history, uncovering a long-forgotten cult that once worshipped a dark deity. As the sinister presence tightens its grip, Nari realizes she has been marked—chosen for a ritual that demands her soul.

The Last Home

2025

Karmalink poster
4.5

In this Buddhist sci-fi mystery, a teenage orphan in the slums of Phnom Penh, Cambodia investigates her friend’s past-life visions, uncovering a conspiracy of scientific reincarnation.

Karmalink

2022

Soul River poster
NR

Soul River was part of the Mekong 2030 anthology, which presents five short films from five Southeast Asian directors, including Kulikar Sotho to represent Cambodia and Hanuman Films. Shooting took place in the Ramsar Wetlands and Stung Treng on the Mekong River as well as on the Tonle Sap Lake near Siem Reap.

Soul River

2019

Life. Love. Bliss poster
NR

Two dubbing actors work on a sensitive scene of a film. Little by little, fiction and reality seem to mingle.

Life. Love. Bliss

2020

KTV: Killing Time Violently poster
NR

Reunites Select ‘Jailbreak’ Cast And Crew For New Action Thriller. Mack is a widower who likes to cause trouble in the bar, and on the first day of his career he was trapped in a KTV full of killer players. He has to deal with stressful situations to survive to attend his son's birthday.

KTV: Killing Time Violently

2023

A Fistful Of Pebbles poster
NR

A Fistful of Pebbles won the 3rd prize in the SEA Tropfest Film Festival 2015. The story is about a mysterious man who finds himself in the muddy monsoon in a village terrorized by a local gangster. When he’s unwittingly drawn into the village’s problem and the beautiful daughter of the village Chief is about to be taken, the hero takes matters into his own hands… with a fistful of pebbles.

A Fistful Of Pebbles

2015

Homo Sive Natura poster
NR

In the remote forests of eastern Cambodia lives a community of indigenous inhabitants. An unnamed forty-year-old businessman arrives with seemingly selfless intentions: he claims he is merely a tourist seeking to discover the life of his “brothers”. In actuality, however, he is gathering information for the possible expropriation of their land. Italian globetrotter Giovanni C. Lorusso lives up to his reputation as a filmmaker balancing on the line between fiction and documentary. Through unique locations, mesmerizing camera work, and immersive sound design, he captures the slow inner transformation of his protagonist along with the rich cultural and spiritual life of a community facing a modern form of colonialism.

Homo Sive Natura

2026

A Dream For My Daughter poster
NR

Inspired by the tragic loss of Southeast Asians smuggled inside a shipping container in Europe, “A Dream for My Daughter” unfolds in Cambodia. It follows Pheak, a crab catcher, reeling from his daughter’s death abroad. Amidst his grief and the challenges of repatriating her body, an encounter with her spirit in a mangrove compels him to confront his sorrow and find closure.

A Dream For My Daughter