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Int’l Critics Line: Cambodia’s Oscar Entry ‘White Building’

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The eponymous edifice of Cambodia’s International Feature Oscar entry, White Building, is barely white at all by the time we encounter it.

A low-rise apartment block in Phnom Penh — the sort of teeming anthill of humanity familiar to anyone who has spent time in a South East Asian city — it is stained with tropical rain, its cement falling off in chunks, its cat’s cradles of improvised electrical wiring truly shocking, in every sense of the word.

Director Kavich Neang grew up here. The building was demolished in 2017 to make way for something more profitable but, before that happened, Neang filmed it from every angle.

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