Rithy Panh

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1964-04-18 · 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.

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.

• Întâi l-au omorât pe tata (2017) — Producer
• L'image manquante (2013) — Production Design, Editor, Director, Screenplay
• Un barrage contre le Pacifique (2009) — Director, Writer
• Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot (2024) — Pol Pot (voice), Director, Screenplay, Editor
• S-21, la machine de mort Khmère rouge (2003) — Screenplay, Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Cinematography, Idea, Story, Script, Writer
• Buoyancy (2019) — Executive Producer
• Holy Lola (2004) — Monsieur Khieu
• អ្នកស្រែ (1994) — Director, Writer
• Duch, le maître des forges de l'enfer (2012) — Editor, Director of Photography, Writer
• Exil (2016) — Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Writer
• Les artistes du Théâtre Brûlé (2005) — Director, Writer
• 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing (2019) — Director
• Bophana, une tragédie cambodgienne (1996) — Director
• Le papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise (2007) — Writer, Director
• Les tombeaux sans noms (2019) — Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography, Editor
• La France est Notre Patrie (2015) — Director
• Irradiés (2022) — Director, Editor, Writer, Co-Producer
• Site 2 (1989) — Writer, Director
• Everything Will Be OK (2022) — Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Writer, Producer
• Cinéastes de notre temps : Souleymane Cissé (1991) — Director
• Wandering Souls (2020) — Filmmaker, Designer
• A Scale Boy (2010) — Producer
• Le gens d’Angkor (2004) — Director
• Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre (2001) — Director, Writer