Guillaume Suon

Guillaume Suon

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French-Cambodian documentarian Guillaume SUON studied filmmaking under Rithy PANH and is also a fellow of the Sundance Institute and the IDFAcademy and the Fémis. His first documentary films on the Khmer Rouge genocide and its aftermaths in Cambodian contemporary society. His filmography includes About My Father (2010), Red Wedding (2012) and The Last Refuge (2013), The Storm Makers (2014).

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The Storm Makers 2014 (7)

The film traces modern-day slavery in Cambodia by disclosing the fate of this young woman and following, in parallel, the daily lives of two human traffickers, a local recruiter and the head of an agency. Cambodian people call these traffickers Mey Kechol: The Storm Makers.
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The Taste of Secrets 2020 (4)

My mother always refused to speak about her childhood during the Cambodian genocide. Upset by her silence, my brother and I decide to follow Antoine, a grandson of Armenian genocide survivors, photographing the ghosts of his ancestors in the Middle East.
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Red Wedding 2012

Between 1975 and 1979, at least 250,000 Cambodian women were forced into marriages by the Khmer Rouge. Sochan was one of them. At the age of 16, she was forced to marry a soldier who raped her. After 30 years of silence, Sochan decided to bring her case to the international tribunal set up to try former Khmer Rouge leaders.