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