Red Wedding
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| Directed by | Lida Chan Guillaume Suon |
| Produced by | Rithy Panh |
| Cinematography | Guillaume Suon Ambroise Boussier Lida Chan |
| Edited by | Guillaume Suon Lida Chan Narin Saobora |
| Music by | Benjamin Bleuez Etienne Lechuga |
| Distributed by | Women Make Movies Bophana Production Tipasa Production |
Release date |
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Running time | 58 minutes |
| Countries | Cambodia France |
| Language | Khmer |
Red Wedding (French: Noces rouges) is a 2012 documentary film co-directed by Lida Chan and Guillaume Suon, which portrays a victim of forced marriage under the Khmer Rouge regime.
The film premiered at the 2012 International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA) and won the Award for Best Mid-Length Documentary.
Synopsis[edit]
Red Wedding is the story of a survivor who pits her humanity against an ideology and a system designed to annihilate people like her. Between 1975 and 1979, at least 250,000 Cambodian women were forced into marriages by the Khmer Rouge. Sochan was one of them. At the age of 16, she was forced to marry a soldier who raped her. After 30 years of silence, Sochan decided to bring her case to the international tribunal set up to try former Khmer Rouge leaders.[1]
Production[edit]
Red Wedding is a Cambodian-French co-production produced by Rithy Panh through Bophana Production, Bophana Center and Tipasa Production. It was produced with the support of GIZ, Alter-ciné Foundation, Fonds francophone de production audiovisuelle du Sud, IDFA Fund, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, Worldview and Cambodia Film Commission.[citation needed] Red Wedding is the first film about a victim of forced marriage and rape under the Khmer Rouge.[2] Lida Chan and Guillaume Suon's survey began in 2010 when forced marriages were qualified crimes against humanity by the Khmer Rouge tribunal. The film was shot in Pursat province, in Cambodia, between 2010 and 2012.[citation needed]
The film' is distributed by Women Make Movies,[3] Bophana Production and Tipasa Production.
Reception[edit]
The film received critical and public acclaim in Cambodia and internationally.[2][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
Awards[edit]
- Best Mid-Length Documentary - International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2012[16][17][18][19][20]
- Golden Award (Mid-length competition) - Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival 2013 (Doha, Qatar)[21][22]
- Jury Prize - Gdansk DocFilm Festival 2013 (Poland)[23]
- Special Jury Prize - HRHDIFF 2013 (Yangon, Burma)
- Best South East Asian Human Rights Film - FreedomFilmFest (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)[24]
- Special Mention Award - Salaya International Documentary Film Festival (Thailand)[25]
References[edit]
- ^ Anchalee Chaiworaporn, "Moving Up - Women Directors and South-east Asian Cinema," in Gabrielle Kelly and Cheryl Robson, eds., Celluloid Ceiling: Women Film Directors Breaking Through, London: Aurora Metro Books, 2014, 160–178 (175).
- ^ a b "Lens Sees Old Traum in a Contemporary Life". Michelle Vachon, Cambodia Daily, June 6, 2011.
- ^ "Red Wedding: Women Under the Khmer Rouge". Women Make Movies website.
- ^ "Red Wedding Shows Lasting Scars of Forced Marriage".Say Mony, VOA, June 6, 2011.
- ^ "Film reveals rape under KR regime". Roth Meas, Phnom Penh Post, June 7, 2011.
- ^ "Cambodian court to hear impact of forced marriages". Robert Carmichael, Radio Australia, June 10, 2011.
- ^ "Film shows brutality of Khmer Rouge's population policy". Robert Carmichael, Radio Australia, June 10, 2011.
- ^ "Cambodia coming to terms with thousands of forced marriages under Pol Pot". Robert Carmichael, Deutsche Welle, June 13, 2011.
- ^ "Un documentaire sur les mariages forcés Red wedding sous le régime khmer rouge". Stéphanie Gée, RFI, June 14, 2011.
- ^ "Les mariages forcés, crimes oubliés"[permanent dead link]. Arnaud Dubus, Le Temps, June 25, 2011.
- ^ "A search for justice by the women forced to marry strangers". Robert Carmichael, The Independent, June 27, 2011.
- ^ "Mariages forcés : le crime oublié des Khmers rouges". Arnaud Dubus, Libération, June 28, 2011.
- ^ "The new golden generation". The new golden generation, Rosa Ellen, Phnom Penh Post, December 7, 2012.
- ^ "Noces rouges, entretien avec Guillaume Suon" Archived 2013-06-03 at the Wayback Machine. Mariona Vivar, Le Blog Documentaire, March 4, 2013.
- ^ "Au Cambodge sous Pol Pot, la mariée était en rouge". Sandra Titi-Fontaine, Rue 89 / InfoSud, March 8, 2013.
- ^ "Winners awards IDFA 2012 announced" Archived 2013-01-29 at the Wayback Machine. IDFA website.
- ^ "Documentary on forced Khmer Rouge weddings wins award". Joe Freeman, Phnom Penh Post, December 3, 2012.
- ^ "IDFA 2012 - Guillaume Suon about Red Wedding" on YouTube. Il Documentario, December 5, 2012.
- ^ "Récompense internationale pour un documentaire sur les mariages forcés pratiqués par le régime Khmer rouge". Cambodge Post, December 5, 2012.
- ^ "Filmmaker Says Stigma from Khmer Rouge Forced Marriages Endures". Sok Khemara, VOA, January 1, 2013.
- ^ "10th Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival Winning Films" Archived 2013-05-25 at the Wayback Machine. Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival website.
- ^ "Red Wedding Film Wins Award in Qatar". Sok Khemara, VOA, June 7, 2013.
- ^ "Results of 11 edition of Gdańsk DocFilm Festival" Archived 2013-11-11 at the Wayback Machine. Gdańsk DocFilm Festival website.
- ^ "Winning films of the KOMAS FreedomFilmFest (FFF) 2013" Archived 2015-07-06 at the Wayback Machine. FreedomFilmFest website.
- ^ "Salaya Doc 2014: Awards for Singapore, Red Wedding and Behind the Screen". Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal.