Bophana, une tragédie cambodgienne (Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy). 1996. Directed by Rithy Panh

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Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy. 1996. Cambodia/France. Directed by Rithy Panh. Courtesy INA

Bophana, une tragédie cambodgienne (Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy). 1996. Cambodia/France. Directed by Rithy Panh. DCP. In Khmer; English subtitles. 60 min.

A love story, a forced confession during five months of torture, and state-sanctioned murder: In Rithy Panh’s heartbreaking account, Hout Bophana and her husband Ly Sitha, a former Buddhist monk turned high-ranking Khmer Rouge official, were separated after the fall of Phnom Penh, never to see each other again. Drawing upon a few surviving photographs, the forbidden love letters they exchanged, and the more than 1,000 pages of confessions extracted from Bophana as she lay starving and beaten in Tuol Sleng, the notorious detention center also known as S21, Panh reconstructs the extraordinary lives of two ordinary Cambodians, creating an unforgettable image of dignity and resistance in the face of certain brutal death. Courtesy INA

This film accompanies Rithy Panh.

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