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Meeting with Pol Pot
The French Institute of Cambodia presents six screenings of Meeting with Pol Pot, the latest film by the French-Cambodian
director Rithy Panh, from September 13th to September 28th in its cinema! Released in June 2024 in French theaters, Meeting
with Pol Pot marks
the filmmaker's return to fiction, more than 15 years after A Dam Against the Pacific with Isabelle Huppert. This new
feature film is not a documentary, but the screenplay is directly inspired by the writings of American journalist and war correspondent
Elizabeth Becker on the Khmer Rouge regime.
Genre: Drama
Language: French and French with English subtitles
Country: France | Cambodia | Taiwan | Qatar | Turkey
Length: 112 minutes
Fees: 2$ full fare / 1$ Media Library members / Free for IFC students
Screening Schedule
- Friday, Sept. 13 at 6:30 PM - French only
- Saturday, Sept. 14 at 2 PM - VF with English subtitles (Khmer parts have English subtitles)
- Wednesday, Sept. 18 at 6:30 PM - French only
- Saturday, Sept. 21 at 4 PM - VF with English subtitles (Khmer parts have English subtitles)
- Friday, Sept. 27 at 6:30 PM - French only
- Saturday, Sept. 28 at 2 PM - VF with English subtitles (Khmer parts have English subtitles)
Meeint with Pol Pot, by Rithy Panh (2024)
112 minutes
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.