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Film Screening: The Sea Wall
3rd November 2017 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Cambodia/France/Belgium
2008
115mins
Narrative Feature
Director: Rithy Panh
Based on the classic novel by Marguerite Dumas, this exquisitely executed drama set in French Indochina, 1931, follows a Widow (Isabelle Huppert) and her two children, Joseph, 20, and Suzanne, 16, barely survive by exploiting rice fields located much too close to the ocean. Every year their crops are flooded and their only hope lies in the construction of a seawall. The mother refuses to give up and desperately battles both the sea and the corrupt colonial bureaucrats.