LE PAPIER NE PEUT PAS ENVELOPPER LA BRAISE (2006)
Prestigious Cambodian moviemaker Rithy Panh –present at the festival a few years ago with the chilling S21. La machine de mort khmère rouge (2002)– comes as close as he can to the life –and spiritual death– of a prostitute. The social decomposition is rounded off with the irreparable injustice of an irreversible process: destruction of the body. The filmmaker portrays the everyday lives of a group of prostitutes in Phnom Penh (Cambodia): the lives, work, suffering and sometimes dreams of women condemned to sell themselves body and soul.
“– Why don’t you go home to your village?
– I don’t want to... I’m ashamed.
– Nobody knows what’s happened to you. I can help you if you want. Go home.
– No. I’m ashamed. Nobody knows what I do in Phnom Penh. But I know.
– I’d like to make a film about your life”.
Frantzia
Zuzendaritza: Rithy Panh
Ekoizpena: Catherine Dussart / Catherine Dussart Productions, Ina
Gidoia: Rithy Panh
Argazkia: Prum Mésar
Musika: Marc Marder
Muntaketa: Marie-Christine Rougerie
Iraupena: 90 min.
Kontaktua: Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA)
Tf.: 33 1 49 83 29 92
pfiorin@ina.fr
www.ina.fr
WOMEN, POVERTY, PROSTITUTION AND AIDS
- Premios del Cine Europeo (2007): Mejor Documental
- FIPA (2007): Fipa d’Or (Categoría “Documentales de Creación”)
- Festival Internacional de Televisión de Shanghai (2007): Premio Magnolia