Rithy Panh
Rithy Panh (Khmer: ប៉ាន់ រិទ្ធី) is a French-Cambodian director, film producer, screenwriter, editor, actor and writer.
During the years 1975 and following in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge regime, he lost his parents and part of his family, and young Rithy witnessed the worst atrocities. He survived in 1979 where he managed to reach the Mairut camp in Thailand then arrived in France in 1980. Rithy Panh is the author of numerous works which all have as a backdrop a Cambodia which is having difficulty dressing its pieces of theater and Where Rithy demonstrates his talent for immortalizing slices of life in which the protagonists give the impression of engaging while forgetting the camera.
His work is imbued with the work of memory and the pain of survivors of the Pol Pot regime. He tries to rediscover Cambodian culture through cinema.
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Movies (38)
In the Silence After
2026 · Executive Producer
We Are the Fruits of the Forest
2025 · Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography
Khmerica
2025 · Producer
The Rubber Tappers
2024 · Producer
Gunyo Cholo: A Girl Coming of Age Story
2024 · Executive Producer
Meeting with Pol Pot
2024 · Pol Pot (voice), Director, Screenplay, Editor
Everything Will Be OK
2022 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer, Writer, Editor
Irradiated
2022 · Director, Writer, Co-Producer, Editor
Life in 24 Frames a Second
2021 · Self
Wandering Souls
2020 · Filmmaker, Designer
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019 · Director
Graves Without a Name
2019 · Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography, Editor
Buoyancy
2019 · Executive Producer
Primero mataron a mi padre: Una hija de Camboya se acuerda
2017 · Producer
Exile
2016 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
The Roots Remain
2015 · Associate Producer
France Is Our Mother Country
2015 · Director
The Missing Picture
2013 · Editor, Production Design, Director, Screenplay
Le dernier refuge
2013 · Producer
Red Wedding
2012 · Producer
Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell
2012 · Director of Photography, Editor, Writer, Director
The Catch
2011 · Editor, Screenplay, Director
A Scale Boy
2010 · Producer
The Sea Wall
2009 · Director, Writer
Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers
2007 · Director, Writer
The Burnt Theatre
2005 · Writer, Director
Holy Lola
2004 · Monsieur Khieu
The People of Angkor
2004 · Director
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
2003 · Screenplay, Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Director, Cinematography, Idea, Story, Script, Writer
Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre
2001 · Director, Writer
The Land of the Wandering Souls
2000 · Writer, Director
One Evening After the War
1998 · Director, Writer
Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy
1996 · Director
Rice People
1994 · Director, Writer
Cinéastes de notre temps : Souleymane Cissé
1991 · Director
Cambodia: Between War and Peace
1991 · Director
Site 2
1989 · Writer, Director
nº72
· Director, Writer
