6:30 p.m.
Introduced by Shanny Peer, Director, Maison Française
Movies are screened in the East Gallery followed by a moderated discussion in French. Attendance is free.
Film in English
In the film version of his harrowing memoir, director Rithy Panh uses ceramic figures to represent the Cambodians murdered by the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979. Rithy Panh earned an Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 2014 — the first Cambodian film to be nominated for an Oscar. This screening is intended to mark 40 years since the Khmer Rouge took power in April 1975.
“The audacity of “The Missing Picture” — a brilliant documentary about a child who held on to life in Cambodia’s killing fields — is equaled only by its soulfulness. On April 17, 1975, the day the Khmer Rouge seized the capital, Phnom Penh, the 13-year-old Rithy Panh, his family and millions more were driven from that city and other towns and villages and straight into hell. Four years later, many of his relatives, including his father, mother, sisters and a niece and nephew were dead; decades later, Mr. Panh, now a filmmaker, has told his story in a movie in which the act of remembrance serves as a form of resistance.” — Manohla Dargis, New York Times review