L'important c'est de rester vivant (Survive: In the Heart of the Khmer Rouge Madness)

L'important, c'est de rester vivant (Survive: In the Heart of the Khmer Rouge Madness) is a very personal film by a survivor of the ‘killing fields’ of Cambodia in the 1970s. Born in Phnom Penh and exiled in France, Roshane Saidnattar returns to Cambodia to interview Khieu Samphan, the President of Kampuchea democratic, who was Pol Pot’s theorician (and who has since been arrested and put on trial for genocide). With her mother and her daughter, the filmmaker makes an emotional journey back to the hamlet where she’d been a child slave of the revolution. Archival footage and dialogue-free re-enactments with actors give depth to the nightmare.
The director, Roshane Saidnattar, will be on hand to conduct a Q and A session after the screening.