Biography
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
all 35
Movies 34
Director 21
Producer 10
TV Shows 1
self 1
The Rubber Tappers (2024)
Meeting with Pol Pot (2024)
Irradiated (2022)
Buoyancy (2019)
Exile (2016)
The Roots Remain (2015)
The Gate (2014)
Where I Go (2014)
The Storm Makers (2014)
The Missing Picture (2013)
Red Wedding (2012)
The Catch (2011)
A Scale Boy (2010)
The Sea Wall (2009)
The Burnt Theatre (2005)
Holy Lola (2004)
The People of Angkor (2004)
Rice People (1994)
Site 2 (1989)
Wandering Souls
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1964-04-18 (60 years old)
Birth PlacePhnom Penh, Cambodia
CitizenshipsCambodia, France
AwardsAlbert Londres Prize for Audiovisual, honorary doctor of Paris 8 University, European Film Award for Best Documentary
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