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THE MISSING PICTURE

by Rithy Panh

synopsis

For many years, I have been looking for the missing picture: a photograph taken between 1975 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge when they ruled over Cambodia...On its own, of course, an image cannot prove mass murder, but it gives us cause for thought, prompts us to meditate, to record History. I searched for it vainly in the archives, in old papers, in the country villages of Cambodia. Today I know: this image must be missing. I was not really looking for it; would it not be obscene and insignificant? So I created it. What I give you today is neither the picture nor the search for a unique image, but the picture of a quest: the quest that cinema allows.

international title: The Missing Picture
original title: L'image manquante
country: Cambodia, France
sales agent: Playtime
year: 2013
genre: fiction
directed by: Rithy Panh
film run: 95'
release date: UK 03/01/2014, NL 27/03/2014
screenplay: Rithy Panh
cinematography by: Prum Messa, Rithy Panh
film editing: Rithy Panh, Marie-Christine Rougerie
production: CDP - Catherine Dussart Productions
distributor: New Wave Films, Contact Film Cinematheek, Movies Inspired, Abordar Casa de Películas

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