
Person
Rithy Panh
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Apr 18, 1964
- From
- 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.
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Meeting with Pol Pot

Holy Lola

Kulturplatz

Wandering Souls

Life in 24 Frames a Second

S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

The Missing Picture
The Land of the Wandering Souls

Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell

The Sea Wall
The Catch

Rice People
One Evening After the War

Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers
Red Wedding

Site 2

The Burnt Theatre

A Scale Boy