Phare Creative Studio puts together Fourth of July tribute for US embassy
Publication date 26 July 2021 | 19:56 | ICT

The animated video opens with a mellow musical melody played on a traditional Khmer stringed instrument called a Tro, awakening actors whose bodies are entirely covered with paintings of flowers that blink and sparkle like fireflies as a

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