Synopsis
Aya is a former slave. At the age of 16, the young Cambodian peasant was sold to a Malaysian recruitment agency to work as a maid. There she was beaten, abused and deprived without receiving a salary. Now back in village, she is just as poor as when she left. Dishonoured and traumatised, what is left of her humanity? The film traces modern-day slavery in Cambodia by disclosing the fate of this young woman and following, in parallel, the daily lives of two human traffickers, a local recruiter and the head of an agency. Cambodian people call these traffickers ‘Mey Kechol’, the ‘Storm Makers’. From the impoverished remote villages to the bustling urban centre of Phnom Penh, The Storm Makers reveals a unique perspective on the exploitation of Cambodia’s rural population. The film raises an unsettling question: what is the price of a young peasant‘s life in contemporary Cambodian society?
Additional screenings: 24/03 – 17h00 – Cinema Galeries
24/03 – 21h30 – Cinema Aventure (Salle 3)