Title | The Betrayal

Production Date | 2008

Running time | 96 min

Director | Ellen Kuras & Thavisouk Phrasavath

Language | English and Lao with English subtitles

Rating | NR

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Filmed over 23 years, NERAKHOON (The Betrayal) is an epic story of a family's journey from war-torn Laos to the mean streets of New York. Thavisouk Phrasavath narrates this deeply personal and poetic memoir of himself as a young man struggling to survive war and life as an immigrant, revealing the hidden, human face of war's "collateral damage".

Cinereach Award � Human Rights Watch International Film Festival 2008 Best Documentary � Ann Arbor Film Festival 2008 Spectrum Award � Full Frame Audience Award - Fresno Film Festival 2009 Oscar Nominee for Best Documentary Feature