First trailer for Angelina Jolie’s Khmer Rouge film released

Netflix has released the first trailer for Angelina Jolie’s film about the Khmer Rouge regime.

First They Killed My Father is adapted from a memoir by activist and lecturer Loung Ung, which tells of her survival under former Cambodian leader Pol Pot.

Directed by Jolie, the film starts in the 70s when Ung was a child living a normal family life.

It chronicles her life as she struggles to survive the genocide and escape the regime.

The method was criticised as exploitative, but Jolie later said the account was “false and upsetting”.

“I am upset that a pretend exercise in an improvisation, from an actual scene in the film, has been written about as if it was a real scenario,” she said.

“The suggestion that real money was taken from a child during an audition is false and upsetting.

“I would be outraged myself if this had happened.”

First They Killed My Father will debut on Netflix after being shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.