The Sea Wall, Rithy Panh, 2009, 117 min
In the early 1930s, in French Indochina, Madame Dufresne, a widow, works tirelessly rebuilding dams to protect her rice fields from the South China Sea typhoons. Her children Joseph and Suzanne, who dream of a better life in the city, think only of escaping their miserable existence and leaving the family bungalow that sits in the middle of unsanitary marshy plains