Following her mother’s death, manga artist Soriya travels to her ancestral home in Phnom Penh, with hopes of reconnecting with her distant family and using the visit as inspiration for her work. All goes well initially. Renting an apartment in Metta, a rundown Khmer Rouge-era housing complex, her visit to her maternal relatives finds her welcomed with open arms. But Soriya’s waking hours in the apartment and its surroundings are punctuated by terrifying, bloody visions, almost as though she were a conduit for horrors of the past wanting to seep into the present. Inrasothythep Neth and Sokyou Chea’s blood-chilling psychological horror explores a personal and political past through the present, transforming a characterful space into an insidious environment. Surrounded by modern high-rises, this decrepit structure, with its brutalist architecture and peeling surfaces, is a relic from a dark period in history whose painful memories it has absorbed. In tracing Soriya’s ominous journey back to her roots, Tenement hints at a necessary reckoning with Cambodia’s political past without overplaying its historical dimension. It’s an impressive work from a woefully underrepresented national cinema.
一望无际的荒漠旷野之上，盘桓着十多名不同身份不同年龄的普通人，他们手里各自拿着一个望远镜，透过镜片兀自眺望着远方。其中一人发现了一处垃圾场，所有的人也都向那里望去。视野中，一只蒙满沙尘的轮胎动了起来，匪夷所思的是，它的动作完全没有借助任何外力，仿佛全由其自身掌控一般。它蹒跚学步，磕磕绊绊，碾压着路上的空瓶子和蝎子。偶然间，轮胎似乎发现自己具有神奇的能力，只要集中注意力盯着（如果它有眼的话）前方的生命体数秒钟，对方就会脑袋炸裂爆头倒毙。“哦耶！这简直太给力呐！”轮胎心中一定这样想到。于是，它滚着矫健的步伐，向前方走去，一路上掀起血雨腥风。而那群完全没有头脑的观着，始终注视着这离奇的一切…
一个被自己的父母抛弃的女孩的故事，14岁就离家出走的她，被当地的一个牧师收养了。后来她所遇到的人，会给她本来就很悲惨的命运带来怎样的影响呢？对于安吉拉·阿卜迪恩来讲，为了她，他宁愿牺牲自己也要与撒旦达成死亡契约，这样就可以让她灵魂永生，为了报仇，她先去吧那牧师的教堂烧成了焦土，而牧师因为喝多了而死在了教堂里。可是后来，她却在都市的灯红酒绿中染上了毒瘾和酒瘾，殊不知，她的脚已经迈入了地狱之门…从做了艳舞女郎到做妓女，发现毒瘾已让她无法自拔，甚至他觉得撒旦也抛弃了她。
