Guillaume Suon

History

French-Cambodian documentarian Guillaume SUON studied filmmaking under Rithy PANH and is also a fellow of the Sundance Institute and the IDFAcademy and the Fémis. His first documentary films on the Khmer Rouge genocide and its aftermaths in Cambodian contemporary society. His filmography includes About My Father (2010), Red Wedding (2012) and The Last Refuge (2013), The Storm Makers (2014).

Movies

A Cambodian Night′s Dream
A Cambodian Night′s Dream
Director of Photography
A young man makes a living by selling drugs in a back alley in Paris. His mother visits him as a ghost.
A Cambodian Night′s Dream
A Cambodian Night′s Dream
Writer
A young man makes a living by selling drugs in a back alley in Paris. His mother visits him as a ghost.
A Cambodian Night′s Dream
A Cambodian Night′s Dream
Director
A young man makes a living by selling drugs in a back alley in Paris. His mother visits him as a ghost.
The Taste of Secrets
The Taste of Secrets
Director of Photography
My mother always refused to speak about her childhood during the Cambodian genocide. Upset by her silence, my brother and I decide to follow Antoine, a grandson of Armenian genocide survivors, photographing the ghosts of his ancestors in the Middle East.
The Taste of Secrets
The Taste of Secrets
Director
My mother always refused to speak about her childhood during the Cambodian genocide. Upset by her silence, my brother and I decide to follow Antoine, a grandson of Armenian genocide survivors, photographing the ghosts of his ancestors in the Middle East.
The Storm Makers
The Storm Makers
Director
The film traces modern-day slavery in Cambodia by disclosing the fate of this young woman and following, in parallel, the daily lives of two human traffickers, a local recruiter and the head of an agency. Cambodian people call these traffickers Mey Kechol: The Storm Makers.
Noces rouges
Noces rouges
Director
Between 1975 and 1979, at least 250,000 Cambodian women were forced into marriages by the Khmer Rouge. Sochan was one of them. At the age of 16, she was forced to marry a soldier who raped her. After 30 years of silence, Sochan decided to bring her case to the international tribunal set up to try former Khmer Rouge leaders.