Prum Mesa

아카이브 영화, 클레이 애니메이션 등 다양한 영화적 형식을 통해, 정치적 폭압과 공포의 기억을 다루어 온 리티 판 감독의 궤적을 집대성한 에세이 필름이다. 이 정치적 우화는 동물들이 주인이 된 디스토피아적 세계를 배경으로 펼쳐진다. 지도자인 멧돼지를 비롯한 유인원, 곰, 사자들은 한때 인간이 그랬던 것처럼 혁명을 일으키고, 인간을 지배하고 노예로 부린다. 그리고 동물들은 인간이 이전 시대에 만든 다종다양한 영상들을 본다.

시간이 지나도 사라지지 않는 악(惡)이 퍼져가는 흔적을 다양한 형식의 자료 화면과 퍼포먼스 이미지를 통해 정면으로 포착한다. 전쟁과 원폭, 민간인 학살의 참혹한 풍경, 파시즘을 예견하는 현대사의 비극적 순간들이 분할 화면 속에 쉬지 않고 등장하는 가운데 낮은 목소리의 나레이션은 고통 속에 사라진 이들을 추모하며 다가올 세대의 미래를 근심한다.

After The Missing Picture (Un Certain Regard winner 2013 and Oscar nominee for the Best Foreign Language Film in 2013) and Exile, Rithy Panh continues his personal and spiritual exploration. S21 the Khmer Rouge Killing Machine and Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell analyzed the mechanisms of the crime. Graves Without a Name searches for a path to peace. When a thirteen-year-old child, who lost the greater part of his family under the Khmer rouge, embarks on a search for their graves, whether clay or on spiritual ground, what does he find there? And above all, what is he looking for? Spectral trees? Villages defaced beyond recognition? Witnesses who are reluctant to speak? The ethereal touch of a brother or sister’s body as the night approaches? A cinematic movie that reaches well beyond the story of a country for that which is universal.

Camille, a young lady who has joined a Catholic mission in Cambodia and is ready to take her vows, crosses paths along a river and the Angkor ruins with a Cambodian man, Sambath, on a regular basis.

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)

A blend of fact and fiction, based on the actual lives of the actors, the film depicts a troupe of actors and dancers struggling to practice their art in the burned-out shell of Cambodia's former national theater, the Preah Suramarit National Theater in Phnom Penh.

The King assigns two tutors for the young Crown Prince and intrigues start flourishing at the Royal Court.

Documentary of the S-21 genocide prison in Phnom Penh with interviews of prisoners and guards. On the search for reasons why this could have happened.

Documentary of the S-21 genocide prison in Phnom Penh with interviews of prisoners and guards. On the search for reasons why this could have happened.

In 1999 a fibre-glas wire was installed from Thailand to Vietnam straight trough Cambodia. Rithy Panh shows us the work done in Cambodia to connect Khmer-society to "modern world". Farmers, soldiers and children work for a living there and unearthen skulls and bones -their remains from PolPot-regime you can see. The fear in their mind is portrayed by Rithy Panh in this documentary. As the other work done by Rithy Panh this deals with his people. I like it very much! The movie was awarded 1999 at "Visions du Réel" in Nyon (Switzerland) and at "Cinéma du Réel" in Paris.

A Buddhist monk tries to preach non-violence to the Khmum-Chachak rebels and the National Army, who are in the midst of a civil war that can dangerously affect innocent civilians.

A guru and his follower, who have lived in the ruins of Angkor for 150 years, return to the world to save the Cambodian people.

A former-soldier from the Cambodian army deserted in 1991. He lives with his wife and children in a village near Phnom Penh. He explains: “For us it’s simple: the sons of the poor go off to war, the sons of the wealthy go to town to become policemen, the sons of Party members go abroad to study.”