Screening First They Killed My Father
The Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (APR2P) and the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (AIHGS) invite you to a screening of FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER to commemorate Genocide Awareness month and the launch of the International Genocide community's screening campaign. Dr Darren O'Brien from the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry will introduce the film.
About Screening First They Killed My Father
The Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect ( APR2P) and the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies(AIHGS) invite you to a screening of FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER to commemorate Genocide Awareness month and the launch of the International Genocide community's screening campaign.
The screen play by Loung Ung and Angelina Jolie and directed by Jolie and produced by renowned Cambodian director Rithy Panh,is based on Ung's memoir.
Set in 1975, the film depicts 7-year-old Ung, who is forced to be trained as a child soldier while her siblings are sent to labor camps during the Communist Khmer regime.
Beautifully shot and wonderfully acted by an all-Cambodian cast, the film is a reminder of the horrors that killed nearly a quarter of the entire population under the violent regime.
Room 208 Ground floor # Building 39 A The University of Queensland
Friday, 12 April 2019 from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm (AEST)