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.
Known for
DirectingBirthday
April 18, 1964Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
31Place of birth
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Cast credits
Crew credits
S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
Director, Camera Operator, Screenplay, Director of Photography
The Sea Wall
Director, Writer
Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell
Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
Rice People
Director, Writer
The Missing Picture
Director, Screenplay, Editor, Production Design
Site 2
Director, Writer
Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers
Director, Writer
Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy
Director
France Is Our Mother Country
Director
Exile
Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
First They Killed My Father
Producer
Graves Without a Name
Director, Screenplay, Editor, Director of Photography
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Director
Irradiated
Director, Writer, Editor, Co-Producer
Buoyancy
Executive ProducerImages
