Ashin Wirathu, the Buddhist monk known for anti-Muslim sentiment in Myanmar, and once called the “Face of Buddhist Terror”, is the subject of a new documentary showing at France’s Cannes Film Festival, which started yesterday.
Directed by filmmaker Barbet Schroeder, whose credits include “Single White Female” and “Barfly”, “The Venerable W” will appear in a special screening at the festival before its official release on 7 June.
The documentary, a French/Swiss co-production is the third film in Barbet Schroeder's "trilogy of evil", following, General Idi Amin Dada (1974) and Terror's Advocate (2007), according to the Internet Movie Database (IMDB).