20/05/2013 - The Missing Picture and The Last of the Unjust were shown at Un Certain Regard and Out of Competition respectively

On Sunday May 19, while Borgman [+see also:
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Aesthetically ambitious French-Cambodian co-production The Missing Picture [+see also:
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Shoah’s director Claude Lanzmann latest work The Last Of The Unjust [+see also:
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