Saturday, February 21 • 2pm

Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot (Meeting With Pol Pot)
Rithy Panh, Blu-ray, 112 min
France / Cambodia, 2024 (French, Cambodian)

Official Selection, Cannes Premiere, 2024 Cannes Film Festival
Wisconsin premiere

Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) – 1978. Three journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview with the regime’s leader, Pol Pot. The country seems idyllic, but behind the Potemkin village presented to the journalists, the Khmer Rouge regime is in decline and the war with Vietnam looms at the border. The regime is looking for culprits, secretly carrying out a large-scale genocide. Under the eyes of the journalists, the beautiful picture cracks, revealing the horror. Their journey progressively turns into a nightmare.

Presented as part of the Albertine Cinémathèque program & co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science & the Department of History

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