Last Night I Saw You Smiling(HKAFF 2019)

Last Night I Saw You Smiling chronicles the final days of Phnom Penh's White Building, a Bauhaus-style tenement block which was about to be demolished when the documentary was made – an act which would remove from the Cambodian capital a symbol of Norodom Sihanouk's internationalist aspirations for his country in the 1960s. Having grown up with his family in the White Building, Kavich Neang offers a first feature filled with delicate observations of ordinary people braving for sweeping changes in their lives, in a film which is at once about architecture, history and how human beings navigate their memories in hallways and rooms that have become all but a memory.