Red Wedding

This article is about a documentary. For the scene from the novel A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin, see The Red Wedding. For the Game of Thrones television adaptation of the scene, see The Rains of Castamere. For the suburb of Berlin, see Wedding (Berlin).
Red Wedding

Red Wedding poster
Directed by Lida Chan
Guillaume Suon
Produced by Rithy Panh
Music by Benjamin Bleuez
Etienne Lechuga
Cinematography Guillaume Suon
Ambroise Boussier
Lida Chan
Edited by Guillaume Suon
Lida Chan
Narin Saobora
Distributed by Women Make Movies
Bophana Production
Tipasa Production
Release dates
  • November 16, 2012 (2012-11-16) (IDFA)
Running time
 58 minutes
Country Cambodia
France
Language Khmer

Red Wedding (French: Noces rouges) is a 2012 documentary film co-directed by Lida Chan and Guillaume Suon, which portrays a victim of forced marriage under the Khmer Rouge regime.

The film premiered at the 2012 International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA) and won the Award for Best Mid-Length Documentary.

Synopsis

Between 1975 and 1979, at least 250,000 Cambodian women were forced into marriages by the Khmer Rouge. Sochan was one of them. At the age of 16, she was forced to marry a soldier who raped her.

After 30 years of silence, Sochan decided to bring her case to the international tribunal set up to try former Khmer Rouge leaders.

Red Wedding is the story of a survivor who pits her humanity against an ideology and a system designed to annihilate people like her.

Production

Produced by Rithy Panh, Red Wedding is a Cambodian-French co-production by Bophana Production, Bophana Center and Tipasa Production.

Red Wedding was produced with the support of GIZ, Alter-ciné Foundation, Fonds francophone de production audiovisuelle du Sud, IDFA Fund, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, Worldview and Cambodia Film Commission.

The film was shot in Pursat province, in Cambodia, between 2010 and 2012.

Distribution

Red Wedding is distributed by Women Make Movies,[1] Bophana Production and Tipasa Production.

Reception

Red Wedding is the first film about a victim of forced marriage and rape under the Khmer Rouge. Lida Chan and Guillaume Suon's survey began in 2010 when forced marriages were qualified crimes against humanity by the Khmer Rouge tribunal. They received critical and public acclaim, in Cambodia and abroad.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

"Red Wedding combines all the elements of a great documentary: a powerful historical episode, retold from an unexpected angle, and a first-rate photography. A truly poetic documentary." — IDFA jury 2012.

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Red Wedding: Women Under the Khmer Rouge". Red Wedding page on Women Make Movies website.
  2. ↑ "Lens Sees Old Traum in a Contemporary Life". Michelle Vachon, Cambodia Daily, June 6, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Red Wedding Shows Lasting Scars of Forced Marriage".Say Mony, VOA, June 6, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Film reveals rape under KR regime". Roth Meas, Phnom Penh Post, June 7, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Cambodian court to hear impact of forced marriages". Robert Carmichael, Radio Australia, June 10, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Film shows brutality of Khmer Rouge's population policy". Robert Carmichael, Radio Australia, June 10, 2011.
  7. ↑ "Cambodia coming to terms with thousands of forced marriages under Pol Pot". Robert Carmichael, Deutsche Welle, June 13, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Un documentaire sur les mariages forcés Red wedding sous le régime khmer rouge". Stéphanie Gée, RFI, June 14, 2011.
  9. ↑ "Les mariages forcés, crimes oubliés". Arnaud Dubus, Le Temps, June 25, 2011.
  10. ↑ "A search for justice by the women forced to marry strangers". Robert Carmichael, The Independent, June 27, 2011.
  11. ↑ "Mariages forcés : le crime oublié des Khmers rouges". Arnaud Dubus, Libération, June 28, 2011.
  12. ↑ "The new golden generation". The new golden generation, Rosa Ellen, Phnom Penh Post, December 7, 2012.
  13. ↑ "Noces rouges, entretien avec Guillaume Suon". Mariona Vivar, Le Blog Documentaire, March 4, 2013.
  14. ↑ "Au Cambodge sous Pol Pot, la mariée était en rouge". Sandra Titi-Fontaine, Rue 89 / InfoSud, March 8, 2013.
  15. ↑ "Winners awards IDFA 2012 announced". IDFA website.
  16. ↑ "Documentary on forced Khmer Rouge weddings wins award". Joe Freeman, Phnom Penh Post, December 3, 2012.
  17. ↑ "IDFA 2012 - Guillaume Suon about Red Wedding" on YouTube. Il Documentario, December 5, 2012.
  18. ↑ "Récompense internationale pour un documentaire sur les mariages forcés pratiqués par le régime Khmer rouge". Cambodge Post, December 5, 2012.
  19. ↑ "Filmmaker Says Stigma from Khmer Rouge Forced Marriages Endures". Sok Khemara, VOA, January 1, 2013.
  20. ↑ "10th Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival Winning Films". Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival website.
  21. ↑ "Red Wedding Film Wins Award in Qatar". Sok Khemara, VOA, June 7, 2013.
  22. ↑ "Results of 11 edition of Gdańsk DocFilm Festival". Gdańsk DocFilm Festival website.
  23. ↑ "Winning films of the KOMAS FreedomFilmFest (FFF) 2013". FreedomFilmFest website.
  24. ↑ "Salaya Doc 2014: Awards for Singapore, Red Wedding and Behind the Screen". Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal.

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