Watch Apinya and David during the shoot in May!

Dear Daravuth,

Thank you for your comment and your entitled question! We understand your demand and would like to give an answer for all who had the same question in their mind already.
The director Detlev Buck as well as the producer Claus Boje faced up with the Khmer culture intensively and got a deep insight into the daily life of the Cambodian people due to the permanent contact with the real Sreykeo.
But as we are not making a documentary but a feature film about love between two young people, we had to look for the best young actor and actress. Very at the beginning David Kross was clear for Ben because we had worked together with him on another film already. And then we started the casting for the girl. Castings are always very hard as you may probably know. When you have seen for example all the talent shows you can imagine how hard the situation is. Not only for the candidates, but also for the jury. And searching for a real feature film is not a show but even harder and a careful decision need to be done. Who is the right one? Who can “be” Sreykeo so that we believe the story, the character and their love? As you may have read we were looking for a leading actress all over the world - also in Cambodia. As the girl must be very young – around 18 – and have experience in acting we didn’t find so much response all over the world, but especially in Cambodia.

After a lot of castings we found Apinya – a wonderful young girl with an incredible talent for acting. We discussed the fact that she is not Cambodian but as she seemed to be the perfect embodiment of Sreykeo, we decided to work with her and David. Also the real couple, Sreykeo and Benjamin, were convinced of the acting couple David Kross and Apinya Sakuljaroensuk and that they could represent their story in the best way.
Making movies is also making art- and this should exceed boarders…. bringing cultures together and bring joy to everyone while watching a wonderful love story which could happen to everyone, everywhere in the world. At the end, I would like to add that we fortunately found a lot of supporting actors and actress from Cambodia who represent an essential part of this movie and characterize it. We hope this movie will show the world that Cambodia is a great country for shooting movies, not only with the human resources they have, as well as the actors and actress.

Go Apinya!
im one of your fans from Thailand
i have watched every movie that you were in.
im so proud of you. :)
you are so young and talented, Apinya.

and i have seen David in the Reader
he was sooooo good in that movie. really.

i believe this movie is gonna be a great one
and worth waiting for :)

It looks like a beautiful scene!! Apinya and David seem to have such natural chemistry, I absolutely cannot wait to see the film :) !! (Please release in Canada somehow :( !!)