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.
Directed
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The Missing Picture (2013) — Director
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The Sea Wall (2009) — Director
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Meeting with Pol Pot (2024) — Director
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S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003) — Director
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Rice People (1994) — Director
- One Evening After the War (1998) — Director
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Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell (2012) — Director
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The Burnt Theatre (2005) — Director
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Exile (2016) — Director
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30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing (2019) — Director
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Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy (1996) — Director
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Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers (2007) — Director
- The Land of the Wandering Souls (2000) — Director
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Graves Without a Name (2019) — Director
- The Catch (2011) — Director
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France Is Our Mother Country (2015) — Director
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Irradiated (2022) — Director
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Site 2 (1989) — Director
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Cinéastes de notre temps : Souleymane Cissé (1991) — Director
- Cambodia: Between War and Peace (1991) — Director
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The People of Angkor (2004) — Director
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Everything Will Be OK (2022) — Director
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Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre (2001) — Director
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We Are the Fruits of the Forest (2025) — Director
