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After a yearlong breakup, a young couple head off into the woods (a wonderfully cast Sequoia National Park) to start over. They tread gingerly along at first, but eventually their trek back into nature gives them little to hide behind. When they (literally) veer off the marked trail and really explore, things come to a head and reality sets in: The nighttime and relationships can be dark. Writer-director Adele Romanski's debut has a fittingly bucolic pace, and the young, attractive actors (Megan Boone and David Nordstrom) are quite natural as the car-camping couple who packed the essentials: tent, sleeping bags, a little whiskey and weed, and assorted emotional baggage. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Cambodia enjoyed a flourishing film industry from 1960 until 1975, when the Khmer Rouge regime decimated the population and the culture, killing an estimated 1.7 million people. Few of the roughly 400 films survived, but many older citizens can still recall details about the popular pictures, the glamorous personalities, the fantastic plots, the poppy soundtracks. Filmmaker Davy Chou's documentary visits with several surviving former industry pros and sites of long-gone studios, film locations and Phnom Penh theaters: The city had 30 in its heyday. Now repurposed as karaoke lounges or, in one case, a dank shelter for 179 households, today they tell a tragic tale of film - and human - history. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]