Hidden Photos
Forty years after the beginning of the Khmer Rouge regime, Kim Hak, a young and talented Cambodian photographer, is looking for a new imagery for his country. His career begins with some family photographs hidden underground by his mother before the war and found only after the defeat of the Khmer Rouge: Hak’s images will take us to a Cambodia out of any commonplace.
Meanwhile, Nhem Ein, a Khmer Rouge regime photographer who portrayed the victims of the Tuol Sleng genocide in about 14,000 shots, wants to establish himself as an entrepreneur of the so-called dark tourism. One of his ideas on how to profit from those macabre testimonies will bitterly surprise us.
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Festival: 34th Torino Film Festival; Human Right Festival in Vienna Award winner as Best documentary in Up and coming; Winner 17th Belfast Film Festival, International competition and Maysles’brother Competition; Dokfest Munich, International competition; Winner Bellaria Film Festival; 20th Taipei Film Festival International competition; Durban International Film Festival, International competition; Melgao International Film Festival, International competition; Indipendent Film Fest Osnabrück, International competition; 36th Jean Rouch International Film Festival, International competition, Musée de l’Homme, Paris; 40th Poitier Film Festival, Winner International competition; Cambodia International film Festival; Angkor Film Festival