Jean-Baptiste Phou is a French-Cambodian writer, director and multidisciplinary artist and will host a meet-and-greet lunch/and discussion. First an actor, he performed in plays and musicals in Cambodia, France and the USA. In films he has been directed by Rithy Panh, Erick Zonca, Sara Forestier and Djinn Carrénard among others. While pursuing acting, he created his theater company and produced his own plays: he wrote and directed Cambodia, Here I Am! (L’Asiathèque, 2017) that premiered in France and was later recreated for the “Khmer in residency” at l’Institut français du Cambodge. He also adapted, directed and performed Soth Polin’s novel L’Anarchiste (Table Ronde, 2011).