The film will be available on December 14-30 as part of the jubilee " 20 years of WATCH DOCS" collection. 

Realization of a seemingly simple plan to film a meeting between former guards and surviving prisoners of the notorious Khmer Rouge penal colony, S. 21, turned out to be extremely difficult, but netted one of the most eminent images of totalitarianism in the history of cinema. Rithy Panh – once a prisoner of the Khmer Rouge himself - made his distinct and subtle in form film when the Cambodian public was moved by the information that those responsible for the genocide may face trial. “S. 21” is not only a reconstruction of the daily functioning of Tuol Sleng – a place of programmed dehumanization and extermination – it is also testimony to the therapeutic power of the word – the meaning of speech and memory.

Maciej Nowicki