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　　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.

　　曾经驰骋战场的退伍老兵安布罗斯·麦金利（Nick Damici 饰）终究也抵挡不了衰老和死亡的侵袭，妻子早年去世，儿子威尔（伊桑·恩布里 Ethan Embry 饰）兀自忙着事业，父子关系虽不冷淡却也绝非亲近，双目失明的安布罗斯搭乘着儿子的汽车搬入名为克莱森特湾的老年社区，陪伴他的只有一条忠诚的狗狗。搬入当晚，住在隔壁的老妇人被一只饿狼模样的怪兽袭击身亡，而安布罗斯则经历了极其恐怖且终生难忘的夜晚。从医生口中得知，该社区每个月都会发生一次类似案件，但警方无一例外都将其归咎为普通的野兽所为。　　得不到亲人的救助，更无法奢望父母的庇护，安布罗斯只能融入社区，寻找拯救自己的办法……

　　知名電影評論網紅古馬木一直在網上做評論為大家排雷，這次他化身AI人工智能潛入電影世界，評論最新爛片《人魚愛上我》主創背後的真實故事⋯　　潦倒編劇樂與母相依為命，偶爾在網上認識十分欣賞樂作品的神秘少女，樂以為覓得「真愛」並為之直奔海島，既為愛情亦為拍檔強介紹的工作。然而「真愛」不出現，編劇工作同樣受挫，投資方堅持改編翻拍了無數次的童話故事美人魚，本應失落的樂卻莫名其妙與民宿老闆娘文漸行漸近。原來樂網戀的「真愛」就是懷春熟女文！文受前夫情傷，年歲漸長的她越發不自信才在網絡上尋求心靈慰藉！　　文自從交上了樂這個網友之後，缺乏自信的她被樂的主動跟甜言蜜語治癒了不少。而樂在文的帶領之下也找到了寫作的靈感，樂忽發其想，邀請文一同合編美人魚的故事，正當劇本寫完之時，樂的母親突然病倒，樂心痛至極同時亦發現文就是當初自己網戀的少女，樂接受不了，拋下狠話，文亦傷心離去，兩人從此再無聯繫。　　樂在醫院陪母親走到生命的盡頭，在見證母親跟多年不見的父親一笑泯恩仇，樂明白世界的情感縱使起源於謊言，但結局也能如童話般美好，樂與文這段疑幻似真的情感，究竟過無數電影的古馬木能否猜到這故事的結局？