Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The timing could not be more spot on for “Meeting With Pol Pot,” Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh’s quiet, powerful drama about ...

"We are so lucky to visit this country at a key moment of its history" Strand Releasing has unveiled the official trailer for Meeting with Pol Pot, a French drama made by acclaimed Cambodian filmmaker ...

A few days before Saigon was overrun by the North Vietnamese in April 1975, Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, fell to the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia’s indigenous Communist forces led by Pol Pot. During the ...

"The more often you change your name the better. It confuses the enemy." So said the enigmatic leader of Cambodia who in two decades went by "Saloth Sar," "Pouk," "Hay," "Grand-Uncle," "Elder Brother" ...

Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Rithy Panh’s “Meeting With Pol Pot” which world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and represents Cambodia in the international feature ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The towering terrors of Pol Pot's Cambodia are hard to see in today's ...

Twenty-seven years ago, as Pol Pot’s ashes were dumped in a remote paddock, Cambodia was the basket case of Southeast Asia, struggling with genocide and three decades of civil war that was still being ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A survivor of the Khmer Rouge's notorious Tuol Sleng prison wept at the trial of his torturer Monday and called for justice for the 1.7 million Cambodians who died under Pol Pot ...

Meeting with Pol Pot, Irene Jacob (Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival) The timing could not be more spot on for “Meeting With Pol Pot,” Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh’s quiet, powerful drama about three ...