The Center for Austrian Studies presents The Future's Past, a documentary focusing on Cambodia today seen through the eyes of three Cambodian youths and their families by Susan Brandstätter on April 3rd, 2013 at 7:00pm in Bell Auditorium. There will be a Q&A session after the film presented by Brandstätter and moderated by Alejandro Baer, director for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
THE FUTURE'S PAST focuses on Cambodia today, seen through the eyes of three Cambodian youths and their families: one living in Phnom Penh, one in the country, far from the globalized centers of the world, and one in Paris. The film reveals the emotional, physical and intellectual impact that the Khmer Rouge Tribunal has on the youngsters their families, and the Cambodian people. After thirty years of silence, the past atrocities will be discusses publicly on TV: five senior Khmer Rouge leaders will be held accountable the deaths of 1.7 million people. Among them is S-21 prison warden Kaung Guek Eav, alias Duch, who will be tries by an international tribunal. However, in a society where relatives, friends, and neighbors belonged to the thousands of perpetrators the burning questions is: Why? Each youth goes on a quest to find out his or her own personal answer.
