Rithy Panh's Film "Le maître des forges de l’enfer" (The ironmaster from hell) to receive Special Award from Cannes Film Committee

Rithy Panh (Photo: AFP)

Excerpt from Cannes 2011 Lineup: Almodovar, Trier, Kaurismaki etc.)

Source: http://www.cineman.gr/content/view/822/122/lang,en/

Rich in big names the official selection of Cannes 2011.

Pedro Almodovar secured once again a place in this year's Cannes with his The Skin that I inhabit, in which he teams again with Antonio Banderas.

Terence Malick's Tree of Life, a supernatural existential thriller with Brad Pitt and Sean Penn finally made it, and was ready for this year's festival.

Aki Kaurismaki is again a contender with his "Le Havre", and Lars Von Trier brings his more subdued "Melancholia" into the Croisette.

Dardenne brothers are here "The Kid with the bike", but also two Italians: Paolo Sorrentino "This must be the place", and Nani Moretti, with "We have a pope".

Britain competes with Lynn Ramsey "We need to talk about Kevin". Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris is shown in the festival premiere (out of competition), as well as the next installment of Pirates of the Caribbean and Kung Fu Panda 2.

Notably absent are Yorgos Lanthimos with Alps, and Hirokazu Kore-eda with "I wish".

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Out of Competition:

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(Special Screenings):

"Le maître des forges de l’enfer," directed by Rithy Panh

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SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE - SÉANCES SPÉCIALES

"Le Maître des forges de l'enfer", de Rithy Panh
pour Le Monde.fr | 15.04.11 | 17h37

Né en 1964 au Cambodge, rescapé des camps de travail des Khmers Rouges, Rithy Panh est arrivé en France en 1980.

Le réalisateur franco-cambodgien exerce un travail de mémoire à travers le cinéma : cette fois, il suit le procès de Duch, l'un des principaux responsables de la répression meurtrière qui s'est abattue sur le Cambodge.

Translation from Le Monde, 15 April 2011

Born in 1964 in Cambodia, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge labor camps, Rithy Panh arrived in France in 1980.

The French-Cambodian filmmaker has been working on memories through film: this time, he followed the trial of Duch, one of the main person responsible for the murderous repression that befell on Cambodia.