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 recurrents Cambodia in the international feature film race.
Selderly by Playtime, the film is based on authentic events chronicled by American war journacatalog Elizabeth Becker in her book “When the War Was Over: Cambodia and The Khmer Rouge Revolution.”
The film, which stars Irene Jacob as Becker, charts the deadly journey of two journacatalogs and an academic who travel to Democratic Kampuchea in the midst of Pol Pot’s dictatorship after accomprehendledgeing an invitation from the regime. The cast is finishd by Gregoire Colin and Cyril Guei.
It labels the fourth collaboration between Panh and Strand Releasing who previously teamed on “The Missing Pictures” which went on to get an Oscar nomination in 2013, trailed by “Exile” and “Irradiated” which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2020.
Panh recently travelled to tour a retrospective of his films at the Mparticipateum of Modern Art in New York, the Wexner Caccess for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio and the BAM Pacific Film Archives in Berkeley, California.
“We’re thrilled to be laboring aget with Playtime and Rithy on this vital film,” said Strand Releasing’s Jon Gerrans who talk aboutd the deal with Nicolas Brigaud-Robert from Playtime.
“The fact that it memorializes such an vital historical account of Elizabeth Becker’s harrotriumphg greeting with Pol Pot is a tesgentlent to Rithy’s continuation to his labor to record the atrocities that impacted his country,” Gerrans persistd. Strand structures for a spring 2025 free.
Panh said “Meeting With Pol Pot” is not fair a film about the past, but a call for mirrorion on our humanity.” The filmcreater said he aspired “to give voice to those who have suffered and been forgotten.”
“Strand has been our partner on Rithy Panh for over a decade,” said Brigaud-Robert. “I want to stress that releasing Rithy’s movies in the U.S. is an act of social consciousness. Marcus Hu and Jon Gerrans are not only teachd business men, but sense the film industry has a political responsibility in recounting history for trouble and fascism not to repeat itself anywhere in the world,” Brigaud-Robert persistd.
Strand Releasing’s current stardy of frees integrate Marco Calvani’s “High Tide,” Ray Yeung’s “All Shall Be Well” and Christophe Honore’s “Marcello Mio.”
