EXILE

Screening Schedule

Nov 25 (Sta.) 10:00 at NTT CRED Hall 1

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Exile is an abandonment, a terrifying solitude. In exile, one's self is lost, one suffers, one fades away. But it is also possible to find one's own, in the land of words, of images, in reverie that is more than childish. It all starts with exile, and nothing is anything without it. Exile is a meditation on absence; on inner solitude, geography, politics. Exile is also an attempt at elucidation on the part of a boy who lived in Democratic Kampuchea and the man he becomes who cannot accept injustice: What kind of revolution might we wish for? A revolution for and with humanity? A revolution that lives up to humanity, with respect and understanding? Or an attempt at destruction, the false purity of which has seen so many disciples, be it in Asia or the West?

Director: Rithy Panh
Script：Rithy Panh
Producer：Catherine Dussart
Character：Sang Nan
Narrator： Randal Douc

Year of production: 2016
Running time: 78’
Country: France・Cambodia
Rosa Filmes (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.