- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- April 18, 1964
- Place of Birth
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Rithy Panh
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
movieWe Are the Fruits of the Forest
2025 · Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography
movieKhmerica
2025 · Producer
movieThe Rubber Tappers
2024 · Producer
movieGunyo Cholo: A Girl Coming of Age Story
2024 · Executive Producer
movieMeeting with Pol Pot
2024 · Pol Pot (voice), Director, Screenplay, Editor
movieEverything Will Be OK
2022 · Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Writer, Producer
movieIrradiated
2022 · Director, Editor, Writer, Co-Producer
movieLife in 24 Frames a Second
2021 · Self
movieWandering Souls
2020 · Filmmaker, Designer
movie30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019 · Director
movieGraves Without a Name
2019 · Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography, Editor
movieBuoyancy
2019 · Executive Producer
movieFirst They Killed My Father
2017 · Producer
movieExile
2016 · Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Writer
movieThe Roots Remain
2015 · Associate Producer
movieFrance Is Our Mother Country
2015 · Director
movieThe Missing Picture
2013 · Production Design, Editor, Director, Screenplay
movieLe dernier refuge
2013 · Producer
Red Wedding
movieRed Wedding
2012 · Producer
movieDuch, Master of the Forges of Hell
2012 · Editor, Director of Photography, Writer
The Catch
movieThe Catch
2011 · Screenplay, Editor, Director
movieA Scale Boy
2010 · Producer
movieThe Sea Wall
2009 · Director, Writer
moviePaper Cannot Wrap Up Embers
2007 · Writer, Director
movieThe Burnt Theatre
2005 · Director, Writer
movieHoly Lola
2004 · Monsieur Khieu
tvKulturplatz
2004 · Self
movieThe People of Angkor
2004 · Director
movieS21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
2003 · Screenplay, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
movieQue la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre
2001 · Director, Writer
The Land of the Wandering Souls
movieThe Land of the Wandering Souls
2000 · Writer, Director
One Evening After the War
movieOne Evening After the War
1998 · Writer, Director
movieBophana: A Cambodian Tragedy
1996 · Director
movieRice People
1994 · Director, Writer
movieCinéastes de notre temps : Souleymane Cissé
1991 · Director
Cambodia: Between War and Peace
movieCambodia: Between War and Peace
1991 · Director
movieSite 2
1989 · Writer, Director
movieIn the Silence After
— · Executive Producer