I hope I can be one of those filmmakers who help revive khmer film and keep the arts alive. NEANG Kavich says that when he was a child, he and his friends were scared every time they heard smot, a ...

Filming for Neang Kavich’s documentary in Kampong Speu province, where students are learning the traditional art of Smot. Photo Supplied Smot, the traditional Khmer chanting often heard at funerals ...

In Cambodia, the music of smot, or dharma songs, is most often heard at funerals and only rarely is it performed live. The ancient melodic chanting was one of the many oral traditions passed from ...

Cambodia's Khmer Rouge wiped out almost two million people and many traditional arts as well. But some are keeping the old forms alive, including a woman whose voice has taken her from the rice fields ...