The Missing Picture
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The Missing Picture (French: L'Image manquante) is a 2013 Cambodian-French[4] documentary film directed by Rithy Panh about the Khmer Rouge.[5]
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Directed by | Rithy Panh |
Written by | Rithy Panh Christophe Bataille |
Produced by | Catherine Dussart |
Narrated by | Randal Douc Jean-Baptiste Phou[1] |
Cinematography | Prum Mesa |
Edited by | Rithy Panh Marie-Christine Rougerie |
Music by | Marc Marder |
Distributed by | Les Acacias (France) |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
Countries | Cambodia France[2] |
Language | French[3] |
It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival[6] where it won the top prize.[7] It was also screened in the World Cinema section at the 2013 Cinemanila International Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize.[8] It won Best Documentary at the 21st Lumières Awards and was nominated for Best Documentary Film at the 41st César Awards as well as for Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards.[9][10][11]
Approximately half of the film is news and documentary footage, while the other half uses clay figurines to dramatise what happened in Cambodia when Pol Pot came to power.[3][12]