Dochouse Double Bill: Red Wedding and Year Zero

RED WEDDING
Guillaume Suon & Lida Chan
Cambodia / France – 2012 – 58 mins

Between 1975 and 1979, at least 250,000 Cambodian women were forced to marry Khmer Rouge soldiers they had never met before in a concerted effort by the regime to increase the population. Sochan Pen was one of them. Aged 16, she was beaten and raped by her husband before managing to escape, albeit deeply scarred by the trauma of her experience.

After 30 years of silence, Sochan is ready to file a complaint with the international tribunal set up to try former Khmer Rouge leaders, and with quiet dignity she begins to demand answers from the regime which caused such agony to a country and its people.



YEAR ZERO: THE SILENT DEATH OF CAMBODIA
David Munro & John Pilger
UK - 1979 - 50mins

Filmed inside Cambodia in 1979, the year the Khmer Rouge were overthrown, Pilger and Munro's ground-breaking and compassionate film was the first Western journalism to fully reveal the devastation wreaked upon the country.
Now considered a piece of history, the film lays bare the entire chain of events, from the removal of King Norodom Sihanouk to ensuing famine and genocide under the Khmer Rouge. A rare chance to see this poignant and sobering portrait of Cambodia's recent history, the first to alert the world to the full horrors of Pol Pot's regime.

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