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  • 2019
  • GKIDS
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2019
  • GKIDS
  • 1 h 24 m

Summary Cambodia, April 1975. Chou is a young woman whose everyday world is suddenly upended by the arrival of the Khmer Rouge regime. During the chaos of the forced exile from their home, Chou and her husband are separated from their 4-year-old son, who has been sent to an unknown location. As she navigates her new reality, working in the field...

Directed By: Denis Do

Written By: Magali Pouzol, Elise Trinh, Denis Do

  • 2019
  • GKIDS
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2019
  • GKIDS
  • 1 h 24 m

Funan

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
79
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
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Summary Cambodia, April 1975. Chou is a young woman whose everyday world is suddenly upended by the arrival of the Khmer Rouge regime. During the chaos of the forced exile from their home, Chou and her husband are separated from their 4-year-old son, who has been sent to an unknown location. As she navigates her new reality, working in the field...

Directed By: Denis Do

Written By: Magali Pouzol, Elise Trinh, Denis Do

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90
Jun 14, 2019
Funan is a stunning piece of animation in which the beauty of the visuals and the horror of the situation are inextricably intertwined.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
90
Jun 6, 2019
Do’s tale is resolutely earthbound. He uses animation as an interrogation into the practice of fictional depiction derived from actual atrocities.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
80
May 2, 2019
The last half hour of Funan is so heavy that the film effectively plays more as tragedy than as triumph, all the more impactful for being true.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
78
Jun 19, 2019
It's an education suitable for both children ready to see the world's shadows, and for adults who may still not comprehend Southeast Asian history beyond the Vietnam War.
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75
Jun 7, 2019
Funan is structured as a series of carefully choreographed set pieces in which things go from bad to worse to unimaginably awful.
By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW
70
May 2, 2019
Despite some narrative cliches, the painstaking way that the movie documents a very dark period in Cambodian history is a noteworthy achievement.
By Jordan Mintzer FULL REVIEW
63
Jun 4, 2019
There are hints that the film will scale itself to the broader historical context of this era, but the screenplay never elaborates on the ethnic strife the undergirds the Cambodian genocide.
By Keith Watson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Les Films d'Ici, Bac Cinéma, Lunanime, IThinkAsia, WebSpider Productions, Epuar, Amopix, Cinéfeel 4, Gao Shan Pictures, Special Touch Studios, Eurimages, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Région Réunion, Région Grand Est, Eurométropole de Strasbourg, Ciclic - Région Centre, Agence Nationale de Gestion des Oeuvres Audiovisuelles (ANGOA), Luxembourg Film Fund, Screen Flanders, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM), Philophon
Release Date Jun 7, 2019
Duration 1 h 24 m
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Tagline Cambodia, April 1975.
Website https://alfapictures.com/sp/amy_movie/funan/
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Awards

Emile Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Annecy International Animated Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Montréal Festival of New Cinema
• 1 Nomination

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