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Rithy Panh

Producer, Director, Writer, Editor, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn April 18, 1964 (60 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
  • The Rice People
  • Meeting with Pol Pot
  • One Evening After the War
  • Irradiés
  • Graves Without a Name
  • 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
  • Le chemin
  • P.O.V.

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
1988
P.O.V. (TV Series)

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