With Funan, his feature film debut, Denis Do took on his family’s remarkable history, coming to understand and connect with it in an entirely new way. Set in Cambodia in April of 1975, the animated ...
Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime was responsible for the deaths of almost 2 million people between 1975 and 1979. Most of those deaths occurred in labor camps, where they were executed or succumbed to ...
Denis Do's award-winning animated feature suggests the horrors of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime without depicting the worst atrocities. Do’s restraint is an artistic choice, not one forced upon him by ...
In 1975, when the Khmer Rouge seize power in Cambodia, city residents are forced into the countryside and made to endure gruelling farm labour. During this upheaval, young mother Chou loses her ...
Denis Do's award-winning animated feature suggests the horrors of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime without depicting the worst atrocities. How does one depict a genocide such as that inflicted by the ...