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Taking Christophe Bataille’s book L’Emination as a starting point, Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Pahn’s new film is a first-person evocation of a recurring episode in his works: the Khmer genocide that decimated his family and shattered his childhood. After years searching for images and photographs that would express that period’s pain and suffering, Pahn opted to created his own, making a film that, in his own words, “is not the final image, nor is the search for one image only, but the objective image of a search, the search that cinema allows”. Un Certain Regard Prize, Cannes 2013.
Rithy Panh
Born in Cambodia, in 1964, under the Khmer Rouge. Running from the labor camp to which he had been sent, he arrived in Paris in 1980, where he enrolled at IDHEC. His first film was Site 2 (1989). With The Rice People (1994), he was nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes, where he also showed S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine (2003). For Paper Cannot Wrap Ember (2007), he won the best documentary prize at the European Film Awards.
