Rice People (1994)

Original title

អ្នកស្រែ

Directed by

Rithy Panh

Genre

drama film

Country

Cambodia, France

Runtime

2h 05m

Rated

TP

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows a rural family in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia as they struggle to harvest a single season of rice. They face the harsh realities of poverty, weather, and the physical toll of subsistence farming.

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What happens

Rice People (Khmer: អ្នកស្រែ, romanized: 'nâk Srê [neak srae]) is a 1994 Cambodian drama film directed and co-written by Rithy Panh. Adapted from the 1966 novel Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan (No Harvest But a Thorn), by Malaysian author Shahnon Ahmad, which is set in the Malaysian state of Kedah, Rice People is the story of a rural family in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia, struggling to bring in a single season's rice crop. It was filmed in the Cambodian village of Kamreang, in the Kien Svay and Boeung Thom areas of Kandal Province near Phnom Penh, on the banks of the Mekong River. The cast features both professional and non-professional actors. The film premiered in the main competition at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and was submitted to the 67th Academy Awards, the first time a Cambodian film had been submitted as a possible nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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