Rithy Panh

Directing·Apr 18, 1964·Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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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.

Film	Credit
We Are the Fruits of the Forest2025 · Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography
Khmerica2025 · Producer	Producer
The Rubber Tappers2024 · Producer	Producer
Meeting with Pol Pot2024 · Pol Pot (voice), Director, Screenplay	Pol Pot (voice), Director, Screenplay
Everything Will Be OK2022 · Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Producer	Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Producer
Irradiated2022 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Life in 24 Frames a Second2021 · Self	Self
Wandering Souls2020 · Filmmaker, Designer	Filmmaker, Designer
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing2019 · Director	Director
Graves Without a Name2019 · Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography	Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography
First They Killed My Father2017 · Producer	Producer
Exile2016 · Director, Director of Photography, Writer	Director, Director of Photography, Writer
France Is Our Mother Country2015 · Director	Director
The Missing Picture2013 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Le dernier refuge2013 · Producer	Producer
RRed Wedding2012 · Producer	Producer
Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell2012 · Director of Photography, Writer, Director	Director of Photography, Writer, Director
TThe Catch2011 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
A Scale Boy2010 · Producer	Producer
The Sea Wall2009 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers2007 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The Burnt Theatre2005 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Holy Lola2004 · Monsieur Khieu	Monsieur Khieu
The People of Angkor2004 · Director	Director
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine2003 · Screenplay, Director of Photography, Director	Screenplay, Director of Photography, Director
Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre2001 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
TThe Land of the Wandering Souls2000 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
OOne Evening After the War1998 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy1996 · Director	Director
Rice People1994 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Cinéastes de notre temps : Souleymane Cissé1991 · Director	Director
CCambodia: Between War and Peace1991 · Director	Director
Site 21989 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director