Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St
312.744.6630
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New Year Baby
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Saturday May 17, 2008 (2pm)
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In 2002, filmmaker Socheata Poeuv's parents revealed a harrowing, 25-year-old secret: her family had barely survived the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Their story, drenched in the heartache and misery of those blood-soaked years, changed them forever. Poeuv learned, for instance, that her mother lost most of her family to the genocide, and that she had taken on her late sister's children as her own, while Poeuv's father smuggled the shell-shocked clan across the Thailand border to safety. This moving documentary tracks her parents' courageous story, the family's recent return to Cambodia, and their shared effort to banish the ghosts of a difficult past.
