The Missing Picture

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Movie: The Missing Picture
Director: Rithy Panh
Writer: Rithy Panh
Producer: Catherine Dussart
Cinematographer: Prum Mesa
World Premiere: May 19, 2013 (Cannes Film Festival)
Release Date: 2013
Runtime: 90 min.
Genre: Documentary / Award Winning
Language: French
Country: Cambodia, France

Plot

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. -- Cannes Film Festival

Cast

Randal Douc - Narrator

Trailers

Film Festivals

2013 (66th) Cannes Film Festival - May 15-26, 2013 - Un Certain Regard *World Premiere
2013 (48th) Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - June 28-July 6, 2013 - Horizons
2013 (45th) New Zealand International Film Festival - July 18-November 6, 2013 - Real
2013 (62nd) Melbourne International Film Festival - July 25-August 11, 2013 - Accent on Asia
2013 (61st) San Sebastian International Film Festival - September 20-28, 2013 - Pearls
2013 (57th) BFI London Film Festival - October 9-20, 2013 - Documentary Competition
2013 (33rd) Hawaii International Film Festival - October 10-20, 2013 - Southeast Asian Showcase *U.S. Premiere

Awards

Prize of Un Certain Regard - 2013 (66th) Cannes Film Festival - May 15-26, 2013