to their own feelings of guilt, trauma and remorse. Towards the end of the film Sambath brings Khoun and Suon to meet Nuon Chea and the three former Khmer Rouge comrades try to fathom the history of which they were each a lethal part. Throughout his three years of research, Sambath omitted to tell Nuon Chea of his family's fate in Democratic Kampuchea. At the end of the film and just before Nuon Chea's arrest, Sambath tells the whole story to the former Khmer Rouge leader. The film also features appearances by Pol Pot, U.S. President Richard Nixon and Deng Yingchao, the widow of Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai. Production Enemies of the People was written, directed and filmed by Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath, who worked on the film together from September 2006 until November 2009. The film was edited in London by Lemkin and film editor Stefan Ronowicz. The score was composed by Daniel Pemberton. The film's world premiere was at the 2009 International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA). The film was slightly altered for its U.S. premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. It was released theatrically in the U.S. by International Film Circuit on 31 July 2011 and went on to play in over 40 American cities. It has also been theatrically released in Great Britain, Thailand and the former Yugoslavia. It is the first Cambodian film to be released in Thailand in 40 years. Pimpaka Towira, managing director of Thai distributor Extra Virgin, said her decision to release the film was difficult at a time when Thailand and Cambodia were engaged in a military conflict. It has also played more than 80 film festivals worldwide. Its US television premiere is in the PBS documentary series POV on 12 July 2011. It has not yet been granted a distribution licence by the Cambodian government, although the film has been shown occasionally at an arthouse cinema in Phnom Penh. In interviews the filmmakers have speculated this is because the history is still too sensitive for the current Cambodian government. Film and Khmer Rouge Tribunal Following the European and American premieres of the film, the co-investigating judge Marcel Lemonde requested the use of the film as evidence in the case he was investigating against Nuon Chea. The filmmakers declined to depose the film with the court on the basis that it would be a breach of the understanding reached