Rithy Panh’s latest dissection of Cambodia’s murderous Khmer Rouge regime follows reporters seeking an audience with its brutal leader. The trio of visiting colleagues here are French: Irène Jacob, as ...

The timing could not be more spot on for “Meeting With Pol Pot,” Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh’s quiet, powerful drama about three French journalists who visit the war-torn country and discover the ...

The director Rithy Panh dramatizes events from 1978, when a group of outsiders was allowed to enter Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

PragerU last Monday released the sixth and final installment in its video series “The Hall of Evil,” which features commentary on six 20 th-century dictators. Narrated by Paul Kengor, professor of ...

A few days before Saigon was overrun by the North Vietnamese in April 1975, Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, fell to the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia’s indigenous Communist forces led by Pol Pot. During the ...

Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Rithy Panh’s “Meeting With Pol Pot” which world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and represents Cambodia in the international feature ...

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The French historian Henri Locard in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Credit: Luke Hunt https://manage.thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/thediplomat_2025-01-15-212351 ...

Rep. Bob Onder (R-MO) raised eyebrows on Thursday with a House floor speech on the killing of Charlie Kirk, in which he claimed Americans on the left “embrace the evil, the false, and ugly.” Onder ...

"The more often you change your name the better. It confuses the enemy." So said the enigmatic leader of Cambodia who in two decades went by "Saloth Sar," "Pouk," "Hay," "Grand-Uncle," "Elder Brother" ...

Cambodian artist Oeur Sokuntevy, 25, was born after the atrocities of Pol Pot's regime. So when she was asked to produce an artwork for an exhibition looking back at that period, she struggled; Pol ...