Rithy Panh, 2003, 100 min.
Screening to coincide with the exhibit of works by Vann Nath and Séra
Rithy Panh is a critically acclaimed Cambodian documentary film director and screenwriter. His films focus on the aftermath of the genocial Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. His family was expelled from Phnom Penh in 1975 by the Khmer Rouge, and many of them died in remote labor camps in rural Cambodia.
In this documentary, Vann Nath and Chum Mey, two survivors of the Khmer Rouge's Tuol Sleng Prison, are reunited and revisit the former prison, now a museum in Phom Penh. They meet their former captors – guards, interrogators, a doctor and a photographer –in a chilling, confrontational review of Cambodia's violent history.
An event organized by the Columbia Maison Française.
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