In 2024, while putting the screening together with the film’s production company, independent Cambodian film collective Anti-Archive, she thought of expanding the event’s scope. The first Kampung Film Festival took place in February 2024, drawing large crowds of local residents and enthusiastic student participation in its animation and photography workshops. The Kampung Film Festival’s imperative to show Cambodian films across time and genre to a local audience is a defiant assertion and reclamation of a lost history. But at the Kampung screening, the movie abruptly cut from Vichet and Vichara running on the bridge to the couple somehow having fallen in the water. Amid the change and erasure, the Kampung Film Festival serves as an invigorating tribute to the communal life and shared traditions that keep the past alive, against all odds.