完美宠物：秘密地下室

　　莎拉（艾丽莎·易默思 Alexa Yeames 饰）、托德（罗德·赫尔南德兹 Rod Hernandez 饰）、杰夫（杰森·托比亚斯 Jason Tobias 饰）、艾瑞克（安东尼·科洛 Anthony Kirlew 饰）、凯伦（斯蒂芬妮·皮尔森 Stephanie Pearson）、朱迪（凯莉·科耐尔 Kelly Connaire 饰）等六名大学生利用假期驱车游玩，途中他们的汽车爆胎。不巧的是他们抛锚的地点信号太差，四周前不着村后不着店，她们只能自己动手修理汽车。身处荒郊野外，年轻人们只能耐心等待旅途的再度开启。谁知就在这时候，其中两人被不知来自何方的子弹射中，相继惨死在烈日之下。恐慌迅速弥漫，而无情的子弹则接二连三射向他们。　　不知何时，他们已经闯入无情杀手的狩猎场，成为逃生希望渺茫的猎物……

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.

　　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.