Gems on the Run(HKAFF 2019)

Rith and Sovan were once childhood buddies, but they’ve drifted apart after growing up. The former has drifted into crime, while the other has unwillingly become a cop, despite his lifelong ambitions of becoming a pop star. Their best friend’s death and a botched diamond heist somehow brought them back together, as the pair embark on a high-octane journey across Cambodia’s rural roads in the company of a mobster’s moll – and with her violent boyfriend at their heels. A ceaselessly entertaining crowd-pleaser, musician-filmmaker Sok Visal’s action comedy is proof of how genre cinema has taken roots in Cambodian cinema in a big way, with very gratifying results.