Crafted from a desire to examine the Mekong River, the tenth largest in the world, MEKONG 2030 is a collection of five short narrative films that imagine the future of this important tributary.
The Mekong River flows through six countries, China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. It provides food and water, as well as tourism, and innumerable livelihoods. Like most natural resources in the 21st Century, the Mekong has been plundered by corporate interests, threatening everyone who is affected by the river. The five short films in MEKONG 2030 seek to bring different cultural perspectives to the value and beauty of the river, featuring five directors from every country on the Mekong (except China). “[A]thoughtful, multi-faceted anthology focusing on the ecological, spiritual and human repercussions of the exploitation of nature, in this case, of the Mekong River Delta.” --Rouven Linnarz, Asian Movie Pulse
Director Biographies
Anysay Keola |
Sai Naw Kham |
Pham Ngoc Lan |
Kulikar Sotho |
Anocha Suwichakornpong |
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Anysay Keola is a Lao filmmaker and the director of the feature films At the Horizon (2011), Vientiane in Love (2015), Noy, Above it All (2016) and Expiration Date (2019).
Sai Naw Kham is a Myanma film director and editor. He's made two short documentaries: “The Crocodile Creek” (2015) and “32 Souls” (2016).
Pham Ngoc Lan is a Vietnamese artist whose short films include “The Story of Ones” (2011), “Another City” (2016) and “Blessed Land” (2019).
Kulikar Sotho is a Cambodian filmmaker. She is the director of The Last Reel (2014), a Khmer-language feature film which was Cambodia's official submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Award.
Anocha Suwichakornpong is a Thai film director, screenwriter, and producer. Her feature films include Mundane History (2009), Breakfast Lunch Dinner (2010), By The Time It Gets Dark (2016), Krabi, 2562 (2019) and the forthcoming Come Here (2021).
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