Rithy Panh

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Rithy Panh, a Cambodian film director of Oscar-nominated foreign language film "The Missing Picture," and film director Kathryn Bigelow seen at 86th Academy Awards - Foreign Language Film Award Reception, on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2014 in Los Angeles, Calif. (Photo by Annie I. Bang /Invision/AP)

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In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 17, 2014, Cambodian film director Rithy Panh speaks at his office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In his latest movie, the 51-year-old filmmaker focuses for the first time on his personal story of loss and tormented survival of a genocide by the Khmer Rouge regime. It is a poetic and highly original film - with no actors, just little clay figures - that may be his most celebrated yet. "The Missing Picture" won an award at last year's Cannes Film Festival and is up for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars this weekend, marking the first time a Cambodian film has been nominated for an Academy Award. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

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In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 17, 2014, Cambodian film director Rithy Panh stands next to an old film camera placed in his office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In his latest movie, the 51-year-old filmmaker focuses for the first time on his personal story of loss and tormented survival of a genocide by the Khmer Rouge regime. It is a poetic and highly original film - with no actors, just little clay figures - that may be his most celebrated yet. "The Missing Picture" won an award at last year's Cannes Film Festival and is up for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars this weekend, marking the first time a Cambodian film has been nominated for an Academy Award. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

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In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 17, 2014, Cambodian film director Rithy Panh speaks at his office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In his latest movie, the 51-year-old filmmaker focuses for the first time on his personal story of loss and tormented survival of a genocide by the Khmer Rouge regime. It is a poetic and highly original film - with no actors, just little clay figures - that may be his most celebrated yet. "The Missing Picture" won an award at last year's Cannes Film Festival and is up for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars this weekend, marking the first time a Cambodian film has been nominated for an Academy Award. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

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In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 17, 2014, Cambodian film director Rithy Panh walks out from his office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In his latest movie, the 51-year-old filmmaker focuses for the first time on his personal story of loss and tormented survival of a genocide by the Khmer Rouge regime. It is a poetic and highly original film - with no actors, just little clay figures - that may be his most celebrated yet. "The Missing Picture" won an award at last year's Cannes Film Festival and is up for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars this weekend, marking the first time a Cambodian film has been nominated for an Academy Award. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

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This undated photo released by Bophana Center shows a scene of "The Missing Picture" directed by Cambodian film director Rithy Panh. For the past two and a half decades, Panh has made movies that he considers his duty as a survivor of a genocide by the Khmer Rouge regime, and his debt to the dead. His latest, “The Missing Picture,” is the first in which he focuses on his own story of loss and tormented survival. It’s also the first Cambodian film to be nominated for an Academy Award, and could win Best Foreign Language Film honors at the Oscars this weekend. (AP Photo/Bohana Center)

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FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2008 file photo, director Rithy Panh, of Cambodia, poses during a photo call to present his movie "Un barrage contre le pacifique" ("The sea wall") at the third edition of the Rome International Film Festival in Rome. For the past two and a half decades, Panh has made movies that he considers his duty as a survivor, and his debt to the dead. His latest, “The Missing Picture,” is the first in which he focuses on his own story of loss and tormented survival. It’s also the first Cambodian film to be nominated for an Academy Award, and could win Best Foreign Language Film honors at the Oscars this weekend. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, FIle)

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This undated photo released by Bophana Center shows a poster of "The Missing Picture" directed by Cambodian film director Rithy Panh. For the past two and a half decades, Panh has made movies that he considers his duty as a survivor of a genocide by the Khmer Rouge regime, and his debt to the dead. His latest, “The Missing Picture,” is the first in which he focuses on his own story of loss and tormented survival. It’s also the first Cambodian film to be nominated for an Academy Award, and could win Best Foreign Language Film honors at the Oscars this weekend. (AP Photo/Bohana Center)

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This undated photo released by Bophana Center shows a scene of "The Missing Picture" directed by Cambodian film director Rithy Panh. For the past two and a half decades, Panh has made movies that he considers his duty as a survivor of a genocide by the Khmer Rouge regime, and his debt to the dead. His latest, “The Missing Picture,” is the first in which he focuses on his own story of loss and tormented survival. It’s also the first Cambodian film to be nominated for an Academy Award, and could win Best Foreign Language Film honors at the Oscars this weekend. (AP Photo/Bohana Center)

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In this Feb., 2014 photo released by Bophana Center, Cambodian film director Rithy Panh looks at a clay figure of himself at Bohana Center, a non-governmental organization, founded by Panh, that collects image and sound archives related to Cambodia, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. For the past two and a half decades, Panh has made movies that he considers his duty as a survivor of a genocide by the Khmer Rouge regime, and his debt to the dead. His latest, “The Missing Picture,” is the first in which he focuses on his own story of loss and tormented survival. It’s also the first Cambodian film to be nominated for an Academy Award, and could win Best Foreign Language Film honors at the Oscars this weekend. (AP Photo/Vann Channarong, Bohana Center)

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In this Feb. 2014 photo released by Bophana Center, Cambodian film director Rithy Panh poses at Bohana Center, a non-governmental organization, founded by Panh, that collects image and sound archives related to Cambodia, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. For the past two and a half decades, Panh has made movies that he considers his duty as a survivor of a genocide by the Khmer Rouge regime, and his debt to the dead. His latest, “The Missing Picture,” is the first in which he focuses on his own story of loss and tormented survival. It’s also the first Cambodian film to be nominated for an Academy Award, and could win Best Foreign Language Film honors at the Oscars this weekend. (AP Photo/Vann Channarong, Bohana Center)

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This undated photo released by Bophana Center shows a scene of "The Missing Picture" directed by Cambodian film director Rithy Panh. For the past two and a half decades, Panh has made movies that he considers his duty as a survivor of a genocide by the Khmer Rouge regime, and his debt to the dead. His latest, “The Missing Picture,” is the first in which he focuses on his own story of loss and tormented survival. It’s also the first Cambodian film to be nominated for an Academy Award, and could win Best Foreign Language Film honors at the Oscars this weekend. (AP Photo/Bohana Center)