In one of the most compelling films to hold its world premiere at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, archive footage shows an apparently amiable man dressed in black sitting for an ...
Meeting with Pol Pot, Irene Jacob (Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival) The timing could not be more spot on for “Meeting With Pol Pot,” Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh’s quiet, powerful drama about three ...
Cambodian despot Pol Pot has no remorse for the death of 2 million people under his “killing fields” regime a holocaust that won him a spot next to Hitler and Stalin in the modern pantheon of evil.
"We are so lucky to visit this country at a key moment of its history" Strand Releasing has unveiled the official trailer for Meeting with Pol Pot, a French drama made by acclaimed Cambodian filmmaker ...
“THE trial of the century” is how some lawyers already view the prospective prosecution of Cambodia's former tyrant, Pol Pot, before an international tribunal for genocide. If it ever happens. The ...
A few days before Saigon was overrun by the North Vietnamese in April 1975, Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, fell to the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia’s indigenous Communist forces led by Pol Pot. During the ...
Pol Pot’s ashes, the final traces of the man who masterminded Cambodia’s genocide, will be scattered in three locations after his body was cremated Saturday on a funeral pyre fueled by his own ...
Celebrated Cambodian director Rithy Panh talks about his new documentary, Meeting With Pol Pot, which premiered at 77th Cannes Film Festival earlier this week. When Rithy Panh set out to make a movie ...
Nate Thayer, an American journalist who chased stories of conflict across the jungles of Southeast Asia and was the last Western correspondent to interview the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal leader Pol Pot, ...
ANLONG VENG, Cambodia – Ten years after the death of brutal Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, his cremation site has become a symbol of spiritual comfort to some in the village where he died. Villagers pray ...
The timing could not be more spot on for “Meeting With Pol Pot,” Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh’s quiet, powerful drama about three French journalists who visit the war-torn country and discover the ...