The Missing Picture (12A) Rithy Panh spent his early years in a comfortable middle-class household in Phnom Penh, but with the rise of Pol Pot’s regime he suffered profound hunger and brutality in labour camps where the rest of his family perished. Looking back on these horrific events, Panh recreates his experiences with miniature clay figures against stylised backdrops and archive footage (much of which was shot by the regime itself). Totems of childhood innocence, these mute figures are invested with extraordinary expressive power by the forensic detail and lyrical restraint of Panh’s...
