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 街景地图PD秀仁带领团队，前往传闻诡异的杀木池水库补拍路段画面——此前素材中莫名出现了无法解释的人形。团队必须在当天完成重拍，可踏入水库区域后，怪事接连发生：镜头捕捉到无人的身影，失踪的前辈突然现身，水下传来若有似无的低语。夜幕降临，信号逐渐消失，成员们接连遭遇离奇状况，黑暗的水库深处，似乎有什么东西正循着水声，向他们缓缓靠近。

　　一个被放逐的焦虑不安的居家者必须与一个进入她家的外星人战斗。

富豪私人派对上，一对男女忘我炒热气氛，只要金主敢玩，他们十倍奉还。白天，两人栖居小公寓照料幼子，她靠教舞维生，他则是潦倒音乐家。然而，手机里传来的加沙炼狱景象使他们焦虑，周遭人们却欢庆着血流成河，他们为了温饱，继续出卖灵魂。某夜，他收到酬劳可观的邀约，却必须将金主写下的魔鬼诗篇谱成新国歌。为了五斗米，他决定深入国族的集体创伤，寻找主旋律。

　　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.