Everything Will Be OK

    • Rithy Panh
    • France, Cambodia
    • 2022
    • 98 min
    • Dutch Premiere
    • Masters

    From the first moments, there can be no doubt that this is a Rithy Panh film. His signature is unmistakable—we recognize the handmade, static figures and dioramas from The Missing Picture (2013), the first Cambodian film to be nominated for an Oscar. And as in Irradiated (2020), Panh bombards the viewer with the horrors of the 20th century. Everything Will Be OK is a dystopian vision à la Animal Farm and Planet of the Apes, with nightmarish sound design and a poetically political commentary.

    In a near future, during a pandemic, the animals have taken over. They treat humans in a way they learned from humans themselves, as we see through sometimes disturbing archive footage—from dictators like Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot; from the horrors of factory farming, which we see repeated on countless screens. Panh overlays this with cinematic references alluding to film classics such as 2001 and Metropolis. The ironic title cites the T-shirt of democracy activist Kyal Sin, who was killed by Myanmar police in 2020.

    Credits

    • 98 min
    • color / black and white
    • DCP
    • Spoken languages: French
    • Subtitles in: English
    Director
    Rithy Panh
    Production
    Catherine Dussart
    Co-production
    Anupheap Production, ARTE
    Editing
    Rithy Panh
    Sound
    Eric Tisserand

    IDFA history

    Share this film

    Print this page

    IDFA history

    This website uses cookies.

    By using cookies we can measure how our site is used, how it can be further improved and to personalize the content of online advertisements.

    Read
     here everything about our cookie policy. If you choose to decline, we only place functional and analytical cookies