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.
Acting
Crew
Movie
First They Killed My Father
Producer
2017
Movie
The Missing Picture
Editor
2013
Movie
The Sea Wall
Director
2009
Movie
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
Screenplay
2003
Movie
Meeting with Pol Pot
Director
2024
Movie
Buoyancy
Executive Producer
2019
Movie
Rice People
Director
1994
Movie
One Evening After the War
Director
1998
Movie
Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell
Director of Photography
2012
Movie
The Burnt Theatre
Writer
2005
Movie
Exile
Director
2016
Movie
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Director
2019