Cambodia’s film director Rithy Panh left the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany with an award—as he usually does at film festivals—for his film entitled “Everything Will Be Ok.”

On Feb. 16, he obtained the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for the film. He shared the award with Mang Sarith who sculpted the figurines used in the film.

Staged with clay characters, the 98-minute film did not leave film critics indifferent.

As Siegfried Forster of Radio France Internationale wrote, “This is the most surprising, the most daring and unfortunately also the most visionary films of the [festival].

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Oct 9, 2022 4:20pm PT
Rithy Panh on Fact and Fiction at the Busan Film Festival

Photo and text by Patrick Frater
Rithy Panh, director of “Rice People” and “S21 The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine” is an icon of art-house cinema, at once political, unique, and charming. The iconic image may be another of his confections – a palatable work built on uncomfortable facts.

On the incomplete evidence of a 50-minute on-stage dialog at the Busan International Film Festival on Sunday, Panh comes across as simultaneously contrarian and principled. A curmudgeonly veteran and yet a filmmaker still curious to learn.

“If there were no Khmer Rouge maybe I would not be a filmmaker,” he said of the Communist insurgents, who won the Cambodian civil war in 1975 and whose brutality and atrocities he has spent a lifetime documenting and exposing.
Full article: https://variety.com/2022/film/news/rith ... 235397213/