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Film Festival - Screening of 'Meeting with Pol Pot' + Q&A with journalist Elizabeth Becker [Registration on External Link]

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Fri, Apr 17, 2026

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Three French journalists travel to Cambodia in 1978 after receiving an invitation from the Khmer Rouge regime, starting a perilous adventure...

As part of the fourth edition of the Princeton French Film Festival, you are invited to the screening of Meeting with Pol Pot (2023) by Rithy Panh, followed by a Q&A with award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker.

🏆 Winner of the Special Jury Award at the Lisbon Film Festival

Logistics: In French and Khmer with English subtitles. Open to everyone upon registration.

Synopsis: Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) - 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime’s leader, Pol Pot. The country seems ideal. But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country. The regime is looking for culprits, secretly carrying out a large scale genocide. Under the eyes of the journalists, the beautiful picture cracks, revealing the horror. Their journey progressively turns into a nightmare. Freely inspired by journalist Elizabeth Becker’s account in When the War Was Over (1986).

Organized by the Princeton University's Princeton Film Festival organization. We thank our sponsors and partners for their support (complete list here). Open to everyone regardless of identity. All rooms are wheelchair-friendly and attendees can contact us at filmfestival@princeton.edu for special accommodations (preferably 48 hours before the scheduled event). Please be aware that pictures might be taken before, during, and after the event.

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Elizabeth Becker

https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-becker-35baa6a/

Award winning author and journalist who covered national and international news as a correspondent at the New York Times and Washington Post and the Senior Foreign Editor of National Public Radio for over 40 years. She won the DuPont Columbia Journalism award as producer of NPR coverage of the Rwanda Massacre and the first free South Africa Election in 1994 and won an Overseas Press Club accolade for her 1978 coverage of Cambodia under Pol Pot. She was part of the New York Times team that won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of 9/11. She is the author of three books on Southeast Asia, including "WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER, Cambodia And The Khmer Rouge Revolution" which won accolades from the Robert F. Kennedy Book Awards. Her latest book YOU DON"T BELONG HERE: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War" was published in 2021 and won Harvard's Goldsmith Book Prize as well as the Sperber book Prize. Her book titled "OVERBOOKED, the Exploding Business of travel and tourism", was an Amazon book of the year and praised by Arthur Frommer as "required reading for anyone interested in the future of travel."- This five year investigation of one of the world's largest business and its profound impacts led Conde Nast Traveler to name Becker as one of the most influential thinker in travel. "Rendez-vous Avec Pol Pot," the acclaimed 2024 feature film by Rithy Panh, is loosely based on her two weeks in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge and her interview with Pol Pot. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024 where she walked the red carpet with the actress Irene Jacob who plays her character.

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Co-hosted with: French and Francophone Society, Princeton Undergraduate Francophone Society