Rithy Panh
Born: 1964-04-18 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Known For: Directing
Biography
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.
Filmography
2025
- We Are the Fruits of the Forest ... (Director)
- Khmerica ... (Producer)
2024
- Gunyo Cholo: A Girl Coming of Age Story ... (Executive Producer)
- Meeting with Pol Pot as Pol Pot (voice)
- The Rubber Tappers ... (Producer)
2022
- Everything Will Be OK ... (Director)
- Irradiated ... (Director)
2021
- Life in 24 Frames a Second as Self
2020
- Wandering Souls as Filmmaker, Designer
2019
- Graves Without a Name ... (Director)
- Buoyancy ... (Executive Producer)
- 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing ... (Director)
2017
- First They Killed My Father ... (Producer)
2016
- Exile ... (Director)
2015
- The Roots Remain ... (Associate Producer)
- France Is Our Mother Country ... (Director)
2013
- The Missing Picture ... (Editor)
- Le dernier refuge ... (Producer)
2012
- Red Wedding ... (Producer)
- Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell ... (Director of Photography)
2011
- The Catch ... (Screenplay)
2010
- A Scale Boy ... (Producer)
2009
- The Sea Wall ... (Director)
2007
- Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers ... (Director)
2005
- The Burnt Theatre ... (Director)
2004
- Kulturplatz as Self
- Holy Lola as Monsieur Khieu
- The People of Angkor ... (Director)
2003
- S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine ... (Screenplay)
2001
- Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre ... (Director)
2000
- The Land of the Wandering Souls ... (Writer)
1998
- One Evening After the War ... (Director)
1996
- Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy ... (Director)
1994
- Rice People ... (Director)
1991
- Cinéastes de notre temps : Souleymane Cissé ... (Director)
- Cambodia: Between War and Peace ... (Director)
1989
- Site 2 ... (Director)