Polen Ly

Réalisateur·trice

Little Fingers Films

BIOGRAPHIE

Polen Ly (b. 1989, Kandal, Cambodia) paused his studies in medicine to pursue his filmmaking path in 2012. He has directed several shorts and documentaries, which explore social issues related to the environment, human rights, including LGBT+ and indigenous experiences. In 2015, his short film COLOURFUL KNOTS won first prize at Tropfest SEA in Malaysia, and in the same year, he was selected to join the International Writing Residency at the University of Iowa in the United States. In 2018, Polen joined the Asian Film Academy in Busan, Korea. His short documentary CEMETERY OF GREEN SOULS won an Honorable Mention prize at Tribeca Film Institute’s IF/Then Pitch at IDFA in 2019. In 2021, his documentary short, SIDE BY SIDE, was selected in the Open Doors section at Locarno. His newest short fiction, FURTHER AND FURTHER AWAY, received the SEA-Shorts grant from Singapore International Film Festival in 2020. Polen is now in early production on his first full-length documentary, THE TONGUE OF WATER, which has received funding from IDFA (Netherlands), DMZ Docs (South Korea), and the Sundance Institute (USA).

FILMOGRAPHIE