Danech San is a director born in
Battambang, Cambodia. Her first short
film, A Million Years (2018), won awards
at Singapore IFF and Kurzfilm Hamburg.
Her second short, Sunrise in My Mind
(2020), was awarded at PÖFF Shorts.
Both films have been broadcast on Arte.
She is an alumna of Locarno Filmmakers
Academy, SEAFIC Seed Lab, Busan Asian
Film Academy, Talents Tokyo, La Fabrique
Cinéma in Cannes, and the Résidence
of Cannes Festival in Paris. She is also
the founder of Kampung Festival, a
Cambodian festival promoting cinema
culture in a non-urban context. She is
now developing her debut feature,
To Leave, To Stay.