It was nearly two years ago when it was first announced that Angelina Jolie‘s next directorial effort would be “First They Killed My Father,” and you’d be forgiven if you forgot the movie was even happening. But cameras rolled and the film is on the way, and the first footage from Jolie’s latest turn behind the camera promises an intense cinematic offering that will shed the light on a truly horrific chapter in Cambodian history.
An adaptation of “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers,” the memoir by author and human rights activist Loung Ung, the film will detail the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, whose four year reign of terror and genocide saw nearly two million Cambodians killed. As you’ll see in this new featurette containing the first footage from the movie, it looks like Jolie is intensely capturing this painful moment in Cambodia’s past, but doing so with great respect as well.
There’s no debut date from Netflix just yet, but I’d assume”First They Killed My Father” will land sometime this year.