
Polen Ly is a self-taught filmmaker. He was a director fellow at Asian Film Academy in Busan, South Korea, in 2018. His first featured documentary UNTIL THE ORCHID BLOOMS was premiered in IDFA, the Netherlands in 2024 and won Grand Prix for Asian Vision Competition at Taiwan International Documentary Festival in 2026. His latest fiction debut BECOMING HUMAN was premiered in Venice Film Festival 2025 and won Golden Hanuman at Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival, Indonesia, 2025.


