With Funan, his feature film debut, Denis Do took on his family’s remarkable history, coming to understand and connect with it in an entirely new way. Set in Cambodia in April of 1975, the animated ...

Berenice Bejo and Louis Garrel lend their voices to Denis Do’s debut animated feature, 'Funan,' about a Cambodian family torn apart by the reign of the Khmer Rouge. By Jordan Mintzer Depicting life ...

Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime was responsible for the deaths of almost 2 million people between 1975 and 1979. Most of those deaths occurred in labor camps, where they were executed or succumbed to ...

ANNECY, France — Denis Do’s semi-autobiographical story, set against the Khmer Rouge’s brutal reign-of-terror, took the top Cristal at the 2018 Annecy Intl. Animation Film Festival. Nora Twomey’s “The ...

The second edition of Animation is Film, the GKIDS-produced festival that aims to bring greater exposure to international and independent features, recently wrapped up in Los Angeles with the ...

Belgian production company Lunanime had a grand showing at this year’s Annecy International Animated Film Festival, taking home the Cristals for both feature and short film at the Saturday evening ...

'The Breadwinner' also won big. By Rhonda Richford Denis Do’s Funan on Saturday took the top prize in the main competiton section at the Annecy International Animation Festival. The hand-drawn film, ...