The director Rithy Panh dramatizes events from 1978, when a group of outsiders was allowed to enter Cambodia under the Khmer ...

The new film “Meeting with Pol Pot” centers on three imagined French visitors to Democratic Kampuchea, the name for Cambodia during the savage communist regime of the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s.

"Meeting with Pol Pot," which is Cambodia's official submission for the 97th Academy Awards, debuted in the Cannes Premiere section at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

It's been 50 years since the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, took control of Cambodia in 1975, following a five-year civil war.

The Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, whose films have long borne witness to the country’s murderous Khmer Rouge regime of the ...

Strand Releasing has bought North American rights to Rithy Panh’s “Meeting With Pol Pot" which premiered at Cannes and is Cambodia's Oscar entry.

The so-called “New Cambodia” only lasted four years between 1975 and 1979, but marked an end to over two thousand years of Cambodian history. Pol Pot’s social engineering experiment to ...

Cambodia is one of the rare countries that "preserves the grave site of a murderer such as Pol Pot", he said. "If you don't do it, it will be destroyed and disappear - and the young won't have any ...

Five decades since the Khmer Rouge genocide, memories are still raw for many members of Australia's Cambodian community.

Cambodia’s most celebrated filmmaker Rithy Panh has devoted his career to exploring the legacy of the Khmer Rouge through cinema. The genocidal regime, led by the infamous Communist and ...