(15) 93min
Thet Sambath and Rob Lemkin’s horrifying but remarkably redemptive documentary revisits the architects of the Khymer Rouge’s 1970s genocide of the Cambodian people and somehow gets them to open up about the bloodbath and madness of those years. Powerful, important and totally unforgettable.
Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Tue 18 & Wed 19 Jan.
Sambath and Lemkin's horrifying but remarkably redemptive documentary revisits the architects of the Khmer Rouge's 1970s genocide of the Cambodian people and somehow gets them to open up about the bloodbath and madness of those years. Powerful, important and totally unforgettable.
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(21 May 2018)
Hard-hitting and essential documentary set in the titular, war-torn country
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