'First They Killed My Father' Official Trailer

                  

Reel Sum Up... 

Produced and directed by veteran actress Angelina Jolie; this movie tells the true story of  human rights activist and lecturer, Loung Ung. Based on her published memoir of the same name, the movie gives a detailed and harrowing account of Ung’s escape from the Cambodian genocide orchestrated by the infamous Khmer Rouge regime. Over the next four years, some two million Cambodians – out of a population of seven million – were killed by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge regime. While she was able to reach America with her brother and sister-in-law, Ung’s parents, two sisters and 20 other relatives were killed.

Close friends of Jolie, Ung penned the screenplay; with Angelina’s adopted son, Maddox Jolie-Pitt (originally from Cambodia) also involved in the project.

The movie was previously released in Cambodia on the 18^th of February and now it is set to be released on Netflix on the 15^th of September, 2017. 

 Trailer