S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine (2003)

On one of his last trips before retirement, a plane of an illegal gunrunner in Vietnam is shot down where he hooks up Annie Belle, a humanitarian rebel.

In a tale of drama and adventure, young journalist Andy Cameron (Robert Walker) has to get into Cambodia (it is assumed this is during the genocidal reign of Pol Pot). Cameron has to smuggle out his girlfriend Mieng (Nit Alisa) before she is killed (along with the other two million Cambodians), but he cannot manage this alone. He enlists the aid of an American Vietnam vet and the help of a few Khmer men. Eventually, Cameron makes his way into Cambodia where he encounters many dangers, some human and some inhuman.

WHO KILLED CHEA VICHEA? is a highly charged murder mystery, a political thriller, and a documentary like no other. In 2004, Cambodian union president Chea Vichea was assassinated in broad daylight at a newsstand in Phnom Penh. As international pressure mounted, two men were swiftly arrested and convicted of the crime, each sentenced to twenty years in prison. Filmmaker Bradley Cox’s five-year investigation reveals an elaborate cover-up that reaches the highest echelons of Cambodian society. Winner of a 2011 Peabody Award among many other honors and banned by the Cambodian government, WHO KILLED CHEA VICHEA? uncovers the face of dictatorship behind the mask of democracy.

In a small village, Nhi comes across a Snake Immortal and falls in love with him. She becomes pregnant by the snake, but does not tell her husband. When he discovers the truth, he kills both Nhi and the Snake Immortal. One of the small snakes escapes from Nhi's abdomen, and is brought up by another immortal. Slowly the snake grows up to be a beautiful woman, who sets out to develop another relationship.

A poor, rural Cambodian family slowly disintegrates during the cycle of a single rice crop in this moving, and beautifully photographed European drama adapted from a novel by Shahnon Ahmad. Pouev, his wife Om, and his seven children, live in a small rural village in Cambodia. Their whole precarious life depends upon the success of their rice crop. Both husband and wife are worried, but for different reasons. Pouev is concerned because their acreage is shrinking. Om worries about Pouev; what would happen to her and the children if he died or was injured? Her worst fear is manifest after Pouev steps upon a poisoned thorn and dies. Om finds herself heavily burdened with the responsibilities of maintaining the crop and caring for seven youngsters. She suffers paranoia from worrying about whether the children are doing their share and the other villagers lock her up leaving eldest daughter Sokha to bring in the crop.

Over three million Cambodians died in the genocide between 1975 and 1979. The Khmer Rouge’s reign of terror also decimated a homegrown film industry that had flourished since 1960: movie theaters were bombed, film prints were destroyed and artists were executed. In Golden Slumbers, French-Cambodian filmmaker Davy Chou mourns this loss of lives and culture, but balances the somber material with a playfulness that honors the lush melodramas and mythic adventures of the glory years.

A powerful feature documentary about child sexploitation, an epidemic happening in every country around the world. Filmed over a four year period, REDLIGHT focuses on the personal stories of young Cambodian victims and two remarkable advocates for change: grass-roots activist Somaly Mam and politician Mu Sochua. Using gritty footage smuggled out of brothels and harrowing testimonials, REDLIGHT follows the plight of several current and former child sex slaves. Some are trying to regain entry into Cambodian society to find some semblance of normality after their horrific experiences. Other stories highlight the plight of victims who are attempting to bring the perpetrators to justice. Their torturous yet ultimately heroic battles to find witnesses and take brothel owners to court are dramatically brought to life in this topical and moving feature documentary.

A military group led by Henry Silva and Woody Strode are bound by their honor, to execute their orders to kill as many enemies as possible.

미국 특수부대의 윌라드 대위는 고향에 돌아갔다가 아내가 내민 이혼장에 도장을 찍고 다시 정글로 돌아온다. 혼돈과 막연한 갈망에 시달리던 윌라드에게 떨어진 임무는 캄보디아에 자신의 왕국을 건설한 커츠 대령을 암살하라는 것. 커츠 대령은 한때 가장 뛰어난 군인으로 인정받았으나 미국의 통제를 벗어나 캄보디아에서 독자적인 왕국을 거느리고 있다. 윌라드 대위는 4명의 병사들과 함께 커츠 대령을 찾아 나선다. 폭염과 광기로 가득한 전투를 겪으면서 두려움과 공포로 이성을 잃어가던 그들은 마침내 커츠 대령의 왕국에 도착한다. 그리고 그곳에서 윌라드 대위는 상상을 초월하는 진실을 마주하게 되는데...

1973년 8월 7일, 캄보디아(Cambodia). 캄보디아 주재 미국의 뉴욕 타임스지 특파원인 시드니 쉔버그(Sydney Schanberg: 샘 워터스톤 분)는 1972년 캄보디아 사태에서 크메르군을 섬멸하기 위해 미국 공군이 니크루움에 잘못 폭격하여 많은 민간인 사상자를 발생한 사건을 취재하기 위해, 캄보디아가 공산주의 크메르 루즈 정권에 의해 함락되기 직전인 1973년 8월 현지 취재차 캄보디아의 수도 프놈펜에 도착한다. 그러나 미국은 이것이 알려질까 봐 보도진을 따돌리려 하고 시드니는 뉴욕 타임스지 현지 채용 기자인 캄보디아인 디스 프란(Dith Pran: 행 S. 노어 분)과 함께 어렵게 현지에 가서 참혹한 현장을 카메라에 담는다. 그러나 상황은 시시각각 캄보디아 정부에 불리하게 돌아가고 이에 위기를 느낀 시드니와 프란 일행은 미국 대사관의 도움을 얻어 가족을 탈출시키고 자신들은 남아서 마지막까지 취재를 하는데..

이디오피아의 공산군 점령지역에서 기아 난민 구호사업을 하는 영국인 의사 닉 칼라한 (클라이브 오웬 분)은 영국 기아 돕기 재단의 자선 파티장에 나타나 자선 사업가들의 위선을 질타하며 그들의 자각과 반성을 촉구한다. 재단 이사장의 며느리인 사라 조르단 (안젤리나 졸리 분)은 닉이 파티장에 데려온 이디오피아 소년의 참혹한 몰골에 충격을 받고는 자신의 저금을 털어 구호 물자를 구입하여 닉이 활동하는 이디오피아 캠프를 찾아간다. 그리곤 영국으로 돌아온 사라는 UN 산하 국제 난민 고등 판문 위원회 (UNHCR)에서 일하게 된다. 남편 헨리와 불화에 시달리던 사라는 닉의 동료로부터 연락을 받는다. 닉이 크메르 루즈 치하의 캄보디아에 난민 캠프를 열었는데 UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) 의 명의를 이용, 구호물자 수송을 도와 달라는 것이었다. 그러자 그녀는 직접 물자를 수송하면서 캄보디아에 있는 닉을 다시 만나게 되고 마침내 둘은 운명적인 사랑에 빠진다. 그러나 닉은 그와 함께 하면 사라마저 위험하다며 그녀를 영국으로 다시 돌려 보낸다. 그러던 중, 닉이 체첸에서 활동하다가 반군에게 납치됐다는 소식을 듣고는 다시 죽음을 무릅 쓴 채 체첸으로 향하는데...

Two decades after forging an unlikely alliance in Pol Pot's Cambodia, a French ethnologist and a former Khmer Rouge official meet again after the latter is arrested for crimes against humanity.

After seeing his parents and grandmother killed by the Vietnamese, a 12 year old Khmer boy flees with his baby sister in an attempt to reach safety in Thailand. On the way he befriends a group of Khmer fighters.

Between April, 1975 and January, 1979, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million people in Cambodia. A quarter of the population were wiped out in one of the most brutal and virulent genocides of the twentieth century. This new film explores the life of Pol Pot, the ever-smiling, obsessively secretive leader of the Khmer Rouge. What drove him to inflict such a radical experiment on his own people? How did the Khmer Rouge turn from a band of nationalist revolutionaries into a ruthless killing machine? And why did the West stand by and let it happen?
 As an international tribunal in Cambodia finally brings the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge to justice, it's time to re-examine the gruesome legacy of Pol Pot.

Shickman, the film’s central subject, has been living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for 8 years along with his baby’s mama, Saran. He is the soul provider of the pair and earns his meager living by reading tarot cards street side. Saran is Cambodian, drinks often, was once married to a man of which she had several kids with (all but one are in foster care). Aside from having to contend with each other, the two must also be weary of the human vultures that eye their daughters with hopes of turning a profit on the black market. Surely, the future for these people are a bleak one.

올해 칸영화제 ‘주목할만한 시선’ 부문에서 대상을 수상한 작품. 캄보디아의 크메르 정권 당시의 억압된 처참한 기억을 찰흙 인형과 사진과 기록영화 이미지로 재구성하였다. 자료화면으로 대변되는 공적 역사와 찰흙인형으로 재현된 사적 기억이 절묘하게 겹치며 왜곡되고 은폐된 역사를 다시 써나간다. (2013년 제18회 부산국제영화제)

Set in the newly-pacified Phnom Penh, this film is about the return to civilian life of Cambodian soldiers.

Anitha, a government official, embarks on a journey to find Chandramouli, an archaeologist, who went to Vietnam to search for any existence of the prince of the Chola dynasty.

CAMBODIA: THE PRINCE AND THE PROPHECY explores the years of Prince Norodom Sihanouk’s rule, his juggling for peace, his charisma and contradictions. Following the Prince’s overthrow in 1970, the film traces Cambodia’s destruction during the five years of war before Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge came to power and launched their revolution… As a central theme, the film and its sequel CAMBODIA/KAMPUCHEA feature exclusive interviews with Prince Sihanouk, and focus on his pivotal role in shaping Cambodia’s fate. (Ronin Films, http://www.roninfilms.com.au)

CAMBODIA/KAMPUCHEA draws on unique propaganda film and archival material from the Khmer Rouge, Vietnam and other sources. This is set against the grim realities of the Kampuchean tragedy. As a continuing theme, the film features exclusive interviews with Prince Sihanouk, who offers explanations for and insights into the role he has played in the fate of his luckless country. This definitive film study delves to the roots of the conflict, making sense of the madness, the politics and contradictions. It captures the epic spirit and passions of a people when a whole world is overturned.