First They Killed My Father
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A young girl in Cambodia suffers under the Khmer Rouge regime.
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Why watch this film?
Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge.
"Based on the book of the same name, the original Netflix movie tells the true story of activist Loung Ung, who grew up in Cambodia in the 1970s under the Pol Pot dictatorship and suffered, along with the entire country, from hunger, disease, executions, and forced labor. A hard and tragic story that makes us think by bringing the effects of a devastating regime through the eyes of a young girl. The film also highlights the importance of humanitarianism, a characteristic present in the life of the director Angelina Jolie."