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DESCRIPTION:ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE\n2009- In English and Khmer with English subtitles - 
 94 mins.\nAn International Film Circuit release. Unrated.\n\nFILMMAKER ROB 
 LEMKIN IN PERSON at ALL SHOWS\n\nInternational Film Circuit is pleased to 
 present Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath’s ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE, one of the 
 most harrowing and compelling personal documentaries of our time. Winner of 
 a dozen top documentary festival awards, including a Special Jury Prize at 
 Sundance and the Grand Jury Award at the Full Frame Festival, ENEMIES OF 
 THE PEOPLE exposes for the first time the truth about the Killing Fields 
 and the Khmer Rouge who were behind Cambodia’s genocide. It is also an 
 intimate journey into the heart of darkness by journalist Thet Sambath, 
 whose family was wiped out in the Killing Fields, but whose patience and 
 discipline elicits unprecedented on-camera confessions from perpetrators at 
 all levels of the Khmer Rouge hierarchy. More than simply an inquiry into 
 Cambodia’s experience, the film is a profound meditation on the nature of 
 good and evil, shedding light on the capacity of some people to do terrible 
 things and for others to forgive them. ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE will open in 
 New York on Friday, July 30 at the Quad Cinema, with a national roll-out to 
 follow.\n\nIn 1974, Thet Sambath’s father became one of the nearly two 
 million people who were murdered by the Khmer Rouge. Sambath’s mother was 
 forced to marry a Khmer Rouge militiaman and died in childbirth in 1976, 
 while his eldest brother disappeared in 1977.  Sambath himself escaped 
 Cambodia at age 10 when the regime fell in 1979.\n\nFast forward to 1998, 
 and Sambath, now a reporter with the Phnom Penh Post, got to know the 
 children of some senior Khmer Rouge cadre and gradually earned their trust. 
 Then, for a decade, he spent weekends visiting the home of the most senior 
 surviving leader, Nuon Chea, aka Brother Number Two under Pol Pot. Over 
 time, Nuon Chea began to reveal to him about the truth of the genocide, 
 including details of the killing. Sambath also won the confidence of 
 lower-level Khmer Rouge soldiers, now ordinary fathers and grandfathers, 
 who demonstrated for him how they slit people’s throats. It was the first 
 time these murderers admitted what they had done. He taped their 
 interactions, and together with British documentarian Rob Lemkin created 
 this landmark film.\nFor Sambath, it has been an ongoing, lifelong personal 
 journey to discover what was behind such horror; he neglected both his 
 family and his own happiness in the search for truth with hope of 
 reconciliation. ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE is at once a cinematically beautiful, 
 chillingly insightful, and deeply personal piece of documentary 
 filmmaking.\n“Stunning. Inspiring. A testament to one man’s persistent 
 search for the truth. Extraordinary on several fronts…an intensely 
 personal film undertaken at some risk.”\n– Stephen Holden, New York 
 Times\n\n“One of the most GRIPPING and MOVING films I have ever seen. 
 STUNNING.  ”\n-- Andrew Marr, BBC Radio\n     \n“A must-see exposé.  
 Fascinating and Remarkable.” – Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles 
 Times\n\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/05/18660698.php
SUMMARY:Film: Enemies of the People
LOCATION:BALBOA THEATER\n3630 Balboa St (37th Av) • SF \n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/05/18660698.php
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