“Enemies of the People,” an award-winning documentary that follows one journalist’s search for answers about the Khmer Rouge, screened at a pagoda in Maryland this weekend, prompting many questions from the audience, some of them yet unanswered.
Chou Davy is a young French-Cambodian filmmaker, whose grandfather, Van Chann, made movies in Cambodia in the 1960s and 1970s.
The award-winning Khmer Rouge documentary “Enemies of the People” will be allowed public screenings in Cambodia, and co-producer Thet Sambath says he hopes it will one day be shown nationwide. The film follows the efforts of Thet Sambath to uncover secrets of the Khmer Rouge through years of research and continuous interviews with the regime’s senior-most surviving leader, Nuon Chea. It was recently approved for public showings in Cambodia, following a successful run abroad
The International Center for Journalists will award Cambodian journalist and filmmaker Thet Sambath for his reporting on Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea. Thet Sambath spent more than a decade in extensive interviews with Brother No. 2 before his arrest and detention at the UN-backed tribunal
A new documentary film premiered in Phnom Penh on Thursday reveal forced marriages ordered by the Khmer Rouge ahead of the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s initial hearing of its four senior leaders late this month. Red Wedding, which last 58 minutes, follows the current life of a woman who is bitterly describing her sufferings during the Khmer Rouge period when she was forced to marry one of their soldiers.
The Sam Rainsy Party has scheduled a screening of a controversial film about slain labor leader Chea Vichea at its party headquarters for International Labor Day, May 1. “Who Killed Chea Vichea?” is sharply critical of a police investigation that followed the 2004 murder of the activist and the subsequent jailing of two men widely considered innocent. Authorities have banned a public screening of the film, calling it illegal
A documentary showing the possible impacts of hydropower dams on the Mekong was screened in Phnom Penh Tuesday night, a week after Mekong countries failed to decide on a dam proposed in Laos. About 200 people, most of them students, watched the film, “Where Have All the Fish Gone?: Killing the Mekong Dam by Dam,” which was directed by journalist Tom Fawtrop and screened at Pannasastra University in the capital. The 23-minute film shows a massive hydropower dam under construction in China and street protests in Bangkok over another 11 proposed dams on the lower Mekong