Overview

• The Forum des Images in Paris is hosting 'Qui se souvient du génocide cambodgien?', a program of films, exhibitions, and discussions marking 50 years since the Khmer Rouge's atrocities began.
• Filmmaker Rithy Panh, a survivor of the genocide, is central to the event, with his documentaries reconstructing erased histories through innovative artistic methods.
• The Khmer Rouge systematically destroyed visual records, leaving survivors and artists to rebuild memory through alternative forms of representation.
• The Cambodian genocide has faced a 'double denial'—both contemporary denial during the regime and ongoing historical and legal erasure, with minimal prosecutions of its leaders.
• The event also highlights the role of younger generations, including diasporic artists, in preserving and reshaping Cambodian cultural memory through cinema and art.