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Cinema retrospective: Rithy Pahn
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Rithy Pahn season at the GFT from 13th to 29th June.

Rithy Panh migrated to France and in his early twenties studied filmmaking at the prestigious Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies) in Paris. His textured fiction and documentary films explore the history and experiences of post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia and speak of a traumatic history. Panh himself experienced the mass evacuation of Phnom Penh in 1975, witnessing family members die from exhaustion and starvation in a Cambodian labour camp before fleeing to a refugee camp in Thailand. He returned to Cambodia in 1990 and established Bophana: Audio Visual Resource Centre in Phnom Penh, which aims to preserve and develop Cambodia’s film, photography and audio heritage.

With the support of the French Institute and the Alliance Francaise, GFT is proud to present four of Pahn’s most incisive and poetic films. Full details of screenings can be found in the GFT June brochure.

The Sea Wall France 2008, 12A Starring Isabelle Huppert Showing as part of Refugee Week (14-20 June) on 13th & 15th June

Adaptation of Marguerite Duras’ classic novel. Set in French Indochina (now Cambodia) during the early 1930s, the film recounts the experiences of a widow and her two children as they battle both natural elements and colonial corruption to survive on their rice farm. Captured in sumptuous colour by celebrated cinematographer Pierre Milon, Rithy Panh’s fourth narrative feature explores the social and political complexities hidden beneath the veneer of paradise.

Rice People 1994 (N/C 12+) 22nd June Powerful story of one family’s tenuous fight to eke out a subsistence living from their rice paddies in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia.

S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine 2003 (N/C 15+) 27th June Power film examining the personal devastation surrounding the secret Tuol Sleng detention centre known as ‘S21’ or ‘the place where people go in but never come out’.

Paper Cannot Wrap Ember 29th June 2007 (N/C15+) Documentary telling women’s stories of prostitution and exploitation in Cambodia
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