A River Changes Course

Name: A River Changes Course
Director: Kalyanee Mam
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2013-01-21
Rating: 7.0

2013 · 83 min · ★ 7.0 · Documentary

In her feature directorial debut, Kalyanee Mam, the cinematographer for the Academy Award–winning documentary Inside Job, explores the damage rapid development has wrought in her native Cambodia on both a human and environmental level.

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