世界尽头的爱

 潮汕阿嬷叶淑柔一直守着平淡的日子，安享晚年。孙子晓伟因债务缠身，瞒着家人远赴泰国，寻找传闻中的亿万富豪阿公郑木生。然而，晓伟最后却带回了一个震惊整个家族的消息：阿公早已不在人世，那个与阿嬷一直在书信中谈情说爱的，竟是一个陌生人。随着晓伟的调查，一段隐藏了半世纪的感情赫然袭来，击中了阿嬷的心。

　　A Lower East Side bartender becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving a desperate woman, a missing drug dealer and the scion of a powerful investment firm.

　　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.　　Inrasothythep Neth and Sokyou Chea’s blood-chilling psychological horror explores a personal and political past through the present, transforming a characterful space into an insidious environment. Surrounded by modern high-rises, this decrepit structure, with its brutalist architecture and peeling surfaces, is a relic from a dark period in history whose painful memories it has absorbed. In tracing Soriya’s ominous journey back to her roots, Tenement hints at a necessary reckoning with Cambodia’s political past without overplaying its historical dimension. It’s an impressive work from a woefully underrepresented national cinema.