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The Missing Picture

L'image manquante

2013

Using hand-carved clay figures, archival film, and personal narration, filmmaker Rithy Panh reconstructs his own childhood under the Khmer Rouge and the atrocities of 1975 to 1979, filling in the images that history never recorded. A singular, deeply personal documentary.

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Part of 7 Essential Films from Cambodia

This film is stop 2 of 7 in the hand-ranked native-cinema route through Cambodia. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.

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