Fifteen years after the barbarity of the Pol Pot regime, filmmaker Rity Panh returns to his homeland to make Neak SrĂŞ (Rice People). During the nearly four years of Khmer Rouge terror (1975 – 1979), tens of thousands of Cambodian children were killed, often in the most cruellest of ways.
In this road-movie there is a melancholic, light, late-season climate. One breathes there at ease. TELERAMA, Isabelle Fajardo
A thin layer between fiction and reality, troubling and engaging… OBJECTIF-CINEMA, Claudia Collao
In this road-movie there is a melancholic, light, late-season climate. One breathes there at ease. TELERAMA, Isabelle Fajardo
A thin layer between fiction and reality, troubling and engaging… OBJECTIF-CINEMA, Claudia Collao
The first images coming to my mind in connection with the horrors of war are not a city in ruins or a mass grave, but the eyes of the children who survived. These seven young actresses already know the price of life, maybe the only positive aspect of a war. This is what we tried to convey here. Pierre-Alain Meier
Ikaria BP 1447 Pierre-Alain Meier – Greece Icarians believe in the abilities and great skill of their people. They are convinced that if they make the slightest changes to their customs, they could be capable of ruling the world.
