L' Image Manquante (The Missing Picture)
Filmmaker Rithy Panh tried to locate a photograph taken between 1975 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge when they ruled over Cambodia. The image cannot prove mass murder, but as a record of history it offers us pause to meditate on the horror. His search took him to various archives in the country villages of Cambodia but he never could locate the photograph. Here, he give us neither the picture nor the search for a unique image, but the picture of a quest: the quest that cinema allows.
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