柬埔寨少有的史詩式電影，首次執導便能柔韌處理，可見這位柬埔寨女導演絕非等閒之輩。電影猶如《謎情追兇》，表面是個橫跨近三十年的動人愛情故事，底裡卻是個探討發掘、贖罪到放下的人生大故事，再加上赤柬黑暗統治的沉重歷史，讓電影的眼界 更廣更深更重。年輕女子剛入大學，母親長年患病，父親則是個嚴厲的警察，生愛自由的她無意間接觸到電影這回事。一天，她闖進了荒廢戲院的同時也走進了戲院內老放映員的世界。她發現老放映員珍重的拷貝原來遺失了最後一本，繼而發現她父母不能說的過去。在秘密層層揭開的同時，各人得以再面對自己的傷痛。電影中被消失的結局要如何在現實找到真相?而現實的遺憾又如何在電影新的結局中就到棲息的落腳點?在赤柬統治時期柬 埔寨電影被摧毀得只剩下30餘部，導演以此填補了柬埔寨人被消失的歷史。

The debut feature of Sotho Kulikar, The Last Reel is an ambitious and moving tribute to Cambodian cinema that explores the struggle of the Cambodian people to move forward from the Khmer Rouge regime. At odds with her family, teenager Sophoun (Ma Rynet) takes refuge in an old cinema where she discovers an incomplete melodrama from the 1970s starring her ailing mother (Dy Saveth), who starred in the film while still in her full and glamorous youth. Sophoun endeavors to complete the film for her mother, but the search for the last reel reveals painful questions and truths about her family’s experiences under the Khmer Rouge. Cambodia’s official representative at the 2016 Academy Awards.