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cul t u r al

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film
The Missing Picture (2013) documentary telling the story of director
Rithy Panh’s childhood during the era of the
Khmer Rouge. Nominated for Best Foreign
Language Film at the 2014 Academy
Awards. Won the Un Certain Regard prize
at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and the
Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Cinemanila
International Film Festival.
S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing
Machine (2004) - documentary featuring
first-hand accounts from both victims and
former soldiers in the S-21 detention center.
The film won the Francois Chalais Award at
Cannes Film Festival, Best Documentary at
Chicago International Film Festival and the
International Human Rights Award.

non-fiction

The Killing Fields (1984) – the story of
a photographer trapped in Cambodia under
the Khmer Rouge. Won numerous awards,
including Academy Awards, Golden Globs
and BAFTA awards.

Golden Bones, Sichan Siv, 2008. Written
by a former US Ambassador to the UN, this
autobiographical account relates the author’s
experience in Cambodia’s slave labor camps
and his eventual escape to Thailand.

fiction

First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung,
2001. A moving autobiography of a child’s
first-hand experiences in the war.

A Clash of Innocents, Sue Guiney, 2010.
An American running an orphanage in
Cambodia must work through her issues in
a country coming to terms with its own past.
The Disappeared, Kim Echlin, 2009.
A Canadian searches for a lover who returns
to Cambodia to look for his family.

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children & teens
Never Fall Down, Patricia McCormick,
2012 – the true story of a young Cambodian
boy who survives the Khmer Rouge.
The Secret of the Sacred Temple:
Cambodia, Elizabeth Singer Hunt, 2008
– Secret Agent Jack Stalwart must recover
a lost treasure stolen from Angkor.

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Holiday in Cambodia, Laura Jean
McKay, 2013. Collection of short stories
set in Cambodia.

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