Rithy Panh
Directing
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.
Filmography
TheatersIn the Silence After
2026 · Movie
We Are the Fruits of the Forest
2025 · Movie
Khmerica
2025 · Movie
The Rubber Tappers
2024 · Movie
Gunyo Cholo: A Girl Coming of Age Story
2024 · Movie
Meeting with Pol Pot
2024 · Movie
Everything Will Be OK
2022 · Movie
Irradiated
2022 · Movie
Life in 24 Frames a Second
2021 · Movie
Wandering Souls
2020 · Movie
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019 · Movie
Graves Without a Name
2019 · Movie
Buoyancy
2019 · Movie
First They Killed My Father
2017 · Movie
Exile
2016 · Movie
The Roots Remain
2015 · Movie
France Is Our Mother Country
2015 · Movie
The Missing Picture
2013 · Movie
Le dernier refuge
2013 · Movie
Red Wedding
2012 · Movie
Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell
2012 · Movie
The Catch
2011 · Movie
A Scale Boy
2010 · Movie
The Sea Wall
2009 · Movie
Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers
2007 · Movie
The Burnt Theatre
2005 · Movie
Holy Lola
2004 · Movie
Kulturplatz
2004 · Series
The People of Angkor
2004 · Movie
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
2003 · Movie
Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre
2001 · Movie
The Land of the Wandering Souls
2000 · Movie
One Evening After the War
1998 · Movie
Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy
1996 · Movie
Rice People
1994 · Movie
Cinéastes de notre temps : Souleymane Cissé
1991 · Movie
Cambodia: Between War and Peace
1991 · Movie
Site 2
1989 · Movie