The Missing Picture (2013)

In 1970s Cambodia, eleven year old Rithy Panh and his family were among the millions rounded up by the Khmer Rouge and sent to reeducation work camps. As an adult director, Panh uses a mixture of clay figures, animation, and archival footage to work through the atrocities he experienced, including the deaths of his entire family. The result is a somewhat dull, but unconventional documentary on an important part of world history, told from a first hand perspective. The figures are the most powerful part, but they are presented in static dioramas with very slow, drawn-out narration.

Oscar Nomination: Best Foreign Language Film of the Year