One sign of progress is the career of French-trained director Rithy Panh , who escaped Cambodia after seeing his family die under the Khmer Rouge . His films focus on the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge . One is the docudrama '' Rice People '' ( 1994 ) , which competed at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and was submitted to the 67th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film , the first time a Cambodian film had been submitted for an Oscar
1994 Cannes Film Festival
1994 Cannes Film Festival
Cinema of Cambodia