Neary Adeline Hay: Angkar + Eskape
Neary Adeline Hay explores the history of Cambodia, marked by violence and repudiation, through two personal films that delicately probe the impacts on her own family. In ANGKAR she travels back to Cambodia with her father Khonsaly, to face his former Khmer Rouge persecutors. In her follow-up ESKAPE, Neary Adeline Hay retraces her mothers route of escape from Cambodia in 1981.
"a rich and poignant tapestry of familial history...The fractured reality of a diasporic identity is beautifully realised here; the feeling of always being on the other side of the glass panel, even when it comes to one’s own history" - Guardian
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Movie + 1 extraAngkar
Movie + 1 extra
Born from a forced marriage during the Khmer Rouge regime, director Neary Adeline Hay travels back to Cambodia with her father, Khonsaly, to face his former Khmer Rouge persecutors. In Ta Saeng, the detention village that they lived together in as prisoners over forty years before, Khonsaly and t...
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Movie + 1 extraEskape
Movie + 1 extra
Cambodia 1981. After the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, a woman flees a country in fire and blood. She holds a baby in her arms. Forty years later, confronted with her mother's silence forged by trauma and time, the director decides to embark on a long journey. From the Cambodian jungle, through...