L'image manquante

The Missing Picture
Director
Rithy Panh
Country
Cambodia, France
Year
2012
Genre
Documentary
Scriptwriters
Rithy Panh
Cast
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Production
CDP SARL

Storyline

For many years, I have been looking for the missing picture: a photograph taken between 1975 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge when they ruled over Cambodia...On its own, of course, an image cannot prove mass murder, but it gives us cause for thought, prompts us to meditate, to record History. I searched for it vainly in the archives, in old papers, in the country villages of Cambodia. Today I know: this image must be missing. I was not really looking for it; would it not be obscene and insignificant? So I created it. What I give you today is neither the picture nor the search for a unique image, but the picture of a quest: the quest that cinema allows. 

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Festival de Cannes 2013
Un Certain Regard (winner)
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2013
Horizons
San Sebastián International Film Festival 2013
Pearls Section
BFI London Film Festival 2013
Gijon International Film Festival 2013
Gran Angular Section

Cannes Awards 2013
Un Certain Regard (winner)
European Film Awards (EFA) 2013
Nomination: EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY
Oscar 2014
Nominated: BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Lumière Awards 2016
Nominated to best documentary
César 2016
Nominated to best documentary

Releases

Spain (11 of April 2014)