Looking ahead
Time to look ahead ahead to some of the events that I will be attending, starting with the showing of a documentary tonight at the Meta House called Inside Pol Pot's Secret Prison, which was filmed in 2002 and interviews survivors, guards and people like reporter Nate Thayer, in a look behind the walls of the Tuol Sleng interrogation center or S-21 as its also called. Start time is 7pm and Meta House is on Street 264 near Wat Botum Vadei. There's also an exhibition of photos currently on at Meta House by Japanese artist Yoko Toda, which were taken in the mid-60s. As part of the Cinemekong festival that begins on 15 March, a batch of films will be shown at Meta House, and other venues. Amongst the Meta House showings will be Nice Hat by David Brisbin, Straight Refugeez by Ian White, Seasons of Migration by John Bishop and one that I'd love to see - but won't be in town that night (17 March) - Kampuchea: Death & Rebirth, produced by the famous GDR filmmakers Heynowski/Scheumann of scenes in Cambodia in spring of 1979 just after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime.
The sixth and final Khmer Rouge Legacy public forum will be held this coming Monday (10 March) at Pannasastra School on St 370. It's title is People's Involvement since 2003 and will discuss participation by the public and grassroots NGO/outreach involvement in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. The speakers will include Dr Kek Galabru, one of the leading human rights advocates in Cambodia. Ray Leos will moderate. These forums have been instigated by Meta House and supported by the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation to shine a light on the history of the Tribunal now underway and to bring it into a context which can be easily understood.
Later in the month, on 27 March, a film that has been 20 years in the making will be shown at Chaktomuk Theatre in a ceremony to be presided over by Deputy Prime Minister Sok An. Stanley Harper’s movie Cambodian Dreams documents the parallel stories of rural farm grandmother Yan Chheing's struggle in a refugee camp in Thailand, and her daughter’s hard life in the rice fields of Cambodia. It will air on all national TV stations simultaneously.
The sixth and final Khmer Rouge Legacy public forum will be held this coming Monday (10 March) at Pannasastra School on St 370. It's title is People's Involvement since 2003 and will discuss participation by the public and grassroots NGO/outreach involvement in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. The speakers will include Dr Kek Galabru, one of the leading human rights advocates in Cambodia. Ray Leos will moderate. These forums have been instigated by Meta House and supported by the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation to shine a light on the history of the Tribunal now underway and to bring it into a context which can be easily understood.
Later in the month, on 27 March, a film that has been 20 years in the making will be shown at Chaktomuk Theatre in a ceremony to be presided over by Deputy Prime Minister Sok An. Stanley Harper’s movie Cambodian Dreams documents the parallel stories of rural farm grandmother Yan Chheing's struggle in a refugee camp in Thailand, and her daughter’s hard life in the rice fields of Cambodia. It will air on all national TV stations simultaneously.
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