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LOOT: A Story of Crime and Redemption

Don Millar / Canada / 2025 / 87 min

From the remote jungles of Cambodia to the opulent galleries of Western museums, the film traces the illegal trade of looted Cambodian antiquities. At its center is a powerful international network that, during the civil war, orchestrated the systematic plundering of temples and funneled stolen artifacts into the hands of Western collectors and institutions. Blending investigative reporting with eyewitness testimony and personal accounts of former looters, the film also sheds light on ongoing efforts to return these so-called “blood antiquities” to Cambodia.

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Diệu Ly Hoàng
Art Historian, TU Berlin
Diệu Ly Hoàng is a Berlin-based art historian specializing in museum and colonial histories. She has published on colonial museum contexts and contributed to the Atlas der Abwesenheit (Reimer, 2023). From October 2026, she will pursue a PhD at the University of Oxford, researching the fragmentation of Champa material culture in colonial Indochina.
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Kenna Capalbo
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Kenna began her career in NYC’s film industry before transitioning into advocacy at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, where she supported individuals navigating the criminal legal system. She now centers her work on the intersection of community engagement, documentary film, and journalism. Alongside her professional work, she is pursuing a graduate degree in Geographies of Global Inequalities at Freie Universität Berlin.

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Credits

Year 2025
Production Country Canada
Runtime 87 min
FSK Not rated
Languages Khmer, English
Subtitle English
Premiere Status German Premiere
Director Don Millar
Producer Cole Northey
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