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Rithy Panh

Producer, Director, Writer, Editor, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn April 18, 1964 (61 years)
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

  • The Missing Picture
  • First They Killed My Father
  • S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
  • The Sea Wall
  • Meeting with Pol Pot
  • The Rice People
  • Irradiés
  • One Evening After the War
  • Graves Without a Name
  • Everything Will Be OK
  • Exil
  • Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell
  • The Gate
  • The Land of the Wandering Souls
  • The Burnt Theatre
  • The Storm Makers
  • Gibier d'élevage
  • Golden Slumbers
  • Cinéma, de notre temps
  • Le chemin

Rithy Panh Filmography

2022
2020
Irradiés · as Co-Producer
2019
Buoyancy · as Executive Producer
2017
Le chemin · as Co-Producer
2017
2014
2014
2013
2011
Golden Slumbers · as Co-Producer
2010
The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan · as Consulting Producer
2010
1988
P.O.V. (TV Series)

2014
The Oscars · as Self - Audience Member
2012
28 minutes (TV Series) · as Self
2008
La Grande Librairie (TV Series) · as Self
2004
Kulturplatz (TV Series) · as Self
2000
L'invité (TV Series) · as Self
1991
Movie Days (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee

2024
Meeting with Pol Pot · as Pol Pot (voice)
2004
Holy Lola · as Monsieur Khieu

2022
Everything Will Be OK · as Director Of Photography
2020
Irradiés · as Cinematographer
2018
Graves Without a Name · as Director Of Photography
2016
Exil · as Director Of Photography
2013
The Missing Picture · as Production Design
2011
Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell · as Director Of Photography
2003
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine · as Director Of Photography

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