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The Missing Picture
Why this pick
Rithy Panh again confronts Khmer Rouge trauma through a formally inventive, deeply personal reconstruction, pairing historical testimony with an austere visual language.
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MOVIE2003 1h 41m KHM
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Its rigorous reliance on present-day landscapes and sustained testimony creates a similarly grave confrontation with genocide, memory, complicity, and the limits of explanation.
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The Look of Silence
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The Gatekeepers
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Former Israeli security chiefs reflect candidly on institutional violence and responsibility; its composed interviews carry the same uneasy force of perpetrators facing their past.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Vann Nath and Chum Mey, two survivors of the Khmer Rouge's Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, are reunited and revisit the former prison, now a museum in Phnom Penh. They meet their former captors – guards, interrogators, a doctor and a photographer – many of whom were barely teenagers during the Khmer Rouge era from 1975 to 1979. Their appearances are in stark contrast to the two former prisoners, who are both elderly men. Vann Nath, who was made to paint portraits of prisoners, has a full head of white hair.
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