Focus On Cambodia / Happy Ending (Short, Cambodia/USA, w/ Q&A) + Meeting with Pol Pot (Cambodia)

1) Happy Ending

Genre: Drama

Country: USA & Cambodia

Year: 2023

Duration: 17 mins

Director: ELODIE YUNG

Language(s): English

Subtitles: English

Producer: ELODIE YUNG, JONATHAN HOWARD, JASON McLAGAN, MATTHEW KEENE SMITH, MARIE JAMORA

Principal Cast: JASMINE SIM, MARTHA MILLAN, KRISTA MORIN

Synopsis

Like thousands of Asian women seeking a better life for their family, Chenda leaves Cambodia to work in a massage parlor in America. Isolated and without resources, she learns the hard way that her paycheck implies more than a simple massage. But Chenda carries a dark secret that she only shares with her doll... Happy Ending is a neo-noir movie that explores the somber world of an illicit massage parlor through the eyes of a young female immigrant already struggling with grief. How will she react when she is pushed to the brink? Her story is one of revenge. Only because fiction, less brutal than real life, allows us to empower our anti-heroin, offering her a happier closure than reality does.

2) Meeting with Pol Pot

Genre: Drama

Country: France - Cambodia - Taïwan - Qatar - Turkey

Year: 2024

Duration: 112 mins

Director: Rithy Panh

Language(s): French and Cambodian

Subtitles: English

Producer: Catherine Dussart, Rithy Panh, Justine O., Roger Huang, Fatma Hassan Alremaihi, Hanaa Issa, Mehmet Zahid Sobaci, Muhammed Ziyad Varol, Mirsad Purivatra, Jovan Marjanović, Georges-Marc Benamou

Principal Cast: Irène Jacob, Grégoire Colin, Cyril Guei, Bunhok Lim, Somaline Mao

Synopsis

Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) - 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime’s leader, Pol Pot. The country seems ideal. But behind the

Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country. The regime is looking for culprits, secretly carrying out a large-scale genocide. Under the eyes of the journalists, the beautiful picture cracks, revealing the horror. Their journey progressively turns into a nightmare. Freely inspired by journalist Elizabeth Becker’s account in When The War Was Over.

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