Rithy Panh
Directing
- Born
- April 18, 1964 (age 62) · Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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.
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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.
Known for
First They Killed My Father
February 18, 2017
The Missing Picture
November 4, 2013
The Sea Wall
January 7, 2009
Meeting with Pol Pot
June 5, 2024
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
May 17, 2003
Buoyancy
February 8, 2019
Rice People
May 26, 1994
Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell
January 18, 2012
Exile
May 14, 2016
The Burnt Theatre
November 9, 2005
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
December 14, 2019
Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy
January 1, 1996
Behind the camera35
- 2026In the Silence After Executive Producer
- 2025We Are the Fruits of the Forest Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography
- 2025Khmerica Producer
- 2024The Rubber Tappers Producer
- 2024Gunyo Cholo: A Girl Coming of Age Story Executive Producer
- 2024Meeting with Pol Pot Director, Screenplay, Editor
- 2022Everything Will Be OK Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer
- 2022Irradiated Director, Writer, Editor, Co-Producer
- 201930/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing Director