THE SEA WALL

Screening Schedule

Nov 26 (Sun.) 14:30 at Hiroshima City Cinetamatographic and Audio-Visual Library

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Details

Indochina 1931, the Siam Golf. A small family strives against destitution. The mother realizes that the departure of her two grown children ? Joseph 20 and Suzanne 16 - is ineluctable. Deceived by the colonial administration, she invested all of her savings in worthless, regularly flooded farmland. Driven to fight against the corrupted bureaucrats who conned her, she puts into place a crazy scheme: building a dam against the sea with the help of the villagers...

Director: Rithy Panh
Script：Rithy Panh, Michel Fessler
Producer：Catherine Dussart
Cinematography：Pierre Milon

Year of production: 2008
Running time: 115’
Country: France
Andergraun Films (co-production)

Director

Rithy Panh
Born in 1964 in Phnom Penh. Led a harrowing existence in a Khmer Rouge rehabilitation camp from 1975 until fleeing to Thailand in 1979. Reached Paris one year later, where he subsequently graduated from the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques (IDHEC). Won the Amiens International Film Festival’s Grand Prix for his 1989 feature-length documentary “Site 2”. His first fiction film “Rice People” (94) was screened in competition at Cannes, and his second “One Evening After the War” (98) was selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section. Documentaries “The Land of Wandering Souls” (00) and “S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine” (02) won awards at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival and many other festivals. HIs previous film “The Missing Picture” (13), which was screened as the closing film at that year’s TOKYO FILMeX, won the top prize in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section, and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards.