WHO’S IN IT?
Sareum Srey Moch (film debut), Phoeung Kompheak (The Gate), Sveng Socheata (Mind Cage), Tharoth Sam (Jailbreak)
WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?
Angelina Jolie (In The Land of Blood and Honey), director, writer, producer; Loung Ung (Girl Rising), writer; Rithy Panh (The Gate), Ted Sarandos (Okja) and Michael Vieira (Unbroken), producers; Marco Beltrami (Logan), composer; Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire), cinematographer; Xavier Box (White Shadow) and Patricia Rommel (The Lives of Others), editors
WHAT’S IT ABOUT?
In 1975 Cambodia, five-year-old Loung Ung (Moch) experiences first-hand the deadly Khmer Rouge’s reign of terror and genocide, leaving her separated from her family and left alone to survive the horrors…
IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?
Angelina Jolie directs this powerful and heartbreaking portrayal of brutal genocide in 70s Cambodia, from the point of view of a young girl who would grow up to be a powerful human rights activist.
