Same Same But Different

Same Same But Different (2009) is a German-Cambodian romance from director Detlev Buck available to watch online on iFILM. David Kross plays Ben, a German student who falls for Sreykeo (Apinya Sakuljaroensuk), a bar girl in Phnom Penh.

Their summer fling turns into something harder to shake than either expected. Back in Germany, Ben gets news that stops him cold: Sreykeo is HIV-positive. He could walk away without blame. He doesn't.

The film grew from a real chapter in Benjamin Prüfer's life — first a magazine dispatch, then a novel that Detlev Buck turned into this low-key, cross-continental love story. What makes it linger is the absence of easy emotion: no false hope, just two people trying to stay in each other's lives across every kind of distance. Stream Same Same But Different (2009) on iFILM.