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Cambodia 1981. After the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, a woman flees a country in fire and blood. She holds a baby in her arms. Forty years later, confronted with her mother's silence forged by trauma and time, the director decides to embark on a long journey. From the Cambodian jungle, through the former refugee camps of Thailand and Indonesia, to the asylum-seekers centers in France, she tries to reconstruct the story of their survival and to open up the paths of memory and transmission.

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Neil Young Screen International Functions most effectively as a heartfelt but commendably unsentimental tribute to Neary Hay's resilient, resourceful mother Thany Lieng. Nov 30, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Cambodia 1981. After the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, a woman flees a country in fire and blood. She holds a baby in her arms. Forty years later, confronted with her mother's silence forged by trauma and time, the director decides to embark on a long journey. From the Cambodian jungle, through the former refugee camps of Thailand and Indonesia, to the asylum-seekers centers in France, she tries to reconstruct the story of their survival and to open up the paths of memory and transmission.
Director
Neary Adeline Hay
Producer
Jasmin Basic, Pierre-André Belin, Fabrizio Polpettini
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
Khmer
Runtime
1h 10m