Killing Fields documentary offers chance for reconciliation

Cambodian kickboxing champion Oumry Ban ,left, talks with Rob Lemkin, one of two directors of the award-winning documentary film "Enemies of the People" at the Long Beach KHMER Kickboxing Training Center. The movie about the Killing Fields of Cambodia will be shown at the Art Theater Saturday October 16th at 1:30 p.m., where there also will be a question and answer session. (Stephen Carr/Press-Telegram)

Cambodian kickboxing champion Oumry Ban points out familiar faces as Rob Lemkin, one of two directors of the award-winning documentary film "Enemies of the People" shows parts of his film inside Oumry's office at Long Beach KHMER Kickboxing Training Center on Thursday. (Stephen Carr/Press-Telegram)

10/14/2010
By Greg Mellen, Staff Writer
Long Beach Press Telegram

Want to go?

• What: "Enemies of the People" screenings with post-movie dialogues.
• When: Oct. 16, 1:30 p.m., Art Theatre, 2025 E. 4th St. Long Beach. $10
• When: Oct. 19, 7 p.m., Museum of Tolerance, 9786 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles. Free. RSVP required. Call 310.772.2526.

LONG BEACH - When Rob Lemkin and Theth Sambath made "Enemies of the People," the award-winning documentary about the Killing Fields, they saw it as a strong dramatic and investigative movie.

What they hadn't necessarily seen in it was an opportunity for reconciliation and healing.

Film co-director Lemkin, who is in Long Beach for several upcoming events connected with the movie, said the idea came during a screening of the film in Utah. Lemkin said two Khmer women watched the film and asked Lemkin if he would thank two of the film's subjects who came forward and admitted to killing hundreds of people and were wracked by regret and guilt.
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