Angelia Jolie is never one to shy away from mixing her pop culture clout with important issues, and her latest film as a director, First They Killed My Father, is a harrowing look at the Khmer Rouge regime's reign of terror. The first trailer for the movie, backed by Netflix, is now online.
Adapted from Loung Ung’s memoir, the film recounts Ung’s harrowing survival story under former Cambodian leader Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge regime. Once her hometown capital of Phnom Penh was overtaken, Ung's family was separated – the young girl was forced to become a child soldier while her siblings were sent to labour camps. The genocide included the deaths of one-quarter of the country's population.
Shot entirely in the Khmer language, the film is set to screen at the Toronto Film Festival. But unlike other festival movies where we have to wait a long time to see them here, it'll then hit Netflix on 15 September.