Lost Loves (film)

Lost Loves (ឃ្លាតទៅសែនឆ្ងាយ, Khléat Tŏu Sên Chhngay) is a 2010 Cambodian drama film directed by Chhay Bora and is based on real events.[1] Lost Loves was selected as the Cambodian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.[4] Nun Amara is a woman that fights to survive with her family during the brutal Khmer Rouge regimen (1975-1979) that pushed the entire Cambodian population to forced work in the rice fields and caused the death of more than 1,700,000 persons though mass executions, torture, starvation and deceases.Although she tries to keep the fortitude, she sees how her dear ones are tore off from her side starting with her own father with impotence before a system that is indifferent to the human feelings and personal dramas and the fear to be the next to fall to.Amara looks for her husband in the middle of the chaos and the permanent threat of the Khmer Rouge cadres that behave with much cruelty with the people.
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