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Born in France to Cambodian parents, Davy Chou—director, producer, teacher, and film historian—has been an energetic and boundlessly enthusiastic advocate for cinema in Europe and Asia both, where his organization of workshops and role as one of the founders of the collective Kon Khmer Koun Khmer has helped to gestate a new generation of talent in Cambodia. Along with Chou’s lauded most recent feature, 2022’s Return to Seoul, a sensitive study of a French adoptee’s search for her biological parents in South Korea that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, Metrograph presents a program of films that bear Chou’s indelible imprint as producer with Anti-Archive (Onoda, Last Night I Saw You Smiling) as well as a program of recent Cambodian shorts.
Davy Chou is a 2024 Villa Albertine Resident currently in residence in Chicago.
“Anti-Archive aims to accompany the emergence of a new generation of Cambodian directors. The shorts program and Kavich Neang’s Last Night I Saw You Smiling are incarnations of the variety, singularity, and necessity of these new voices. Onoda, the epic feature by Anatomy of a Fall’s co-writer Arthur Harari, which we line produced in Cambodia, is a fascinating bridge between the best of new French cinema and this new Cambodian generation, with several directors I work with involved in the production of the film.”—Davy Chou
In partnership with FIAF, and with the support of Unifrance and Villa Albertine