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- ↑ "Winners awards IDFA 2012 announced" Archived 2013-01-29 at the Wayback Machine . IDFA website.
- ↑ "Documentary on forced Khmer Rouge weddings wins award". Joe Freeman, Phnom Penh Post, December 3, 2012.
- ↑ "IDFA 2012 - Guillaume Suon about Red Wedding". Il Documentario, December 5, 2012.
- ↑ "Récompense internationale pour un documentaire sur les mariages forcés pratiqués par le régime Khmer rouge" Archived 2018-12-20 at the Wayback Machine . Cambodge Post, December 5, 2012.
- ↑ "Filmmaker Says Stigma from Khmer Rouge Forced Marriages Endures". Sok Khemara, VOA, January 1, 2013.
- ↑ "10th Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival Winning Films" Archived 2013-05-25 at the Wayback Machine . Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival website.
- ↑ "Red Wedding Film Wins Award in Qatar". Sok Khemara, VOA, June 7, 2013.
- ↑ "Results of 11 edition of Gdańsk DocFilm Festival" Archived 2013-11-11 at the Wayback Machine . Gdańsk DocFilm Festival website.
- ↑ "Winning films of the KOMAS FreedomFilmFest (FFF) 2013" Archived 2015-07-06 at the Wayback Machine . FreedomFilmFest website.
- ↑ "Salaya Doc 2014: Awards for Singapore, Red Wedding and Behind the Screen". Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal.
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