S.F. INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL / Golden Slumbers.

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]