Rithy Panh

Producer, Director, Writer, Editor, Actor

April 18, 1964 (62 years)
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.

Known For

  • The Missing Picture
    The Missing Picture
  • First They Killed My Father
    First They Killed My Father
  • S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
    S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
  • The Sea Wall
    The Sea Wall
  • Meeting with Pol Pot
    Meeting with Pol Pot
  • Rice People
    Rice People
  • Irradiated
    Irradiated
  • One Evening After the War
    One Evening After the War
  • Everything Will Be OK
    Everything Will Be OK
  • Graves Without a Name
    Graves Without a Name
  • Exile
    Exile
  • The Gate
    The Gate
  • The Land of the Wandering Souls
    The Land of the Wandering Souls
  • The Burnt Theatre
    The Burnt Theatre
  • The Storm Makers
    The Storm Makers
  • The Catch
    The Catch
  • Golden Slumbers
    Golden Slumbers
  • Site 2
    Site 2
  • Cinema of Our Time
    Cinema of Our Time
    1 Season
  • Le chemin
    Le chemin

Filmography

2024
2022
2020
Irradiated · as Co-Producer
2019
Buoyancy · as Executive Producer
2017
Le chemin · as Co-Producer
2017
2014
2014
2013
2011
Golden Slumbers · as Co-Producer
2010
The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan · as Consulting Producer
1988

2014
The Oscars · as Self - Audience Member
2012
28 minutes · as Self
2008
2004
Kulturplatz · as Self
2000
L'invité · as Self
1991
Movie Days · as Self - Interviewee
1981
13 heures · as Self

2024
Meeting with Pol Pot · as Pol Pot (voice)
2020
Wandering Souls · as Filmmaker, Designer
2004
Holy Lola · as Monsieur Khieu

2022
Everything Will Be OK · as Director Of Photography
2020
Irradiated · as Cinematographer
2018
Graves Without a Name · as Director Of Photography
2016
Exile · as Director Of Photography
2013
The Missing Picture · as Production Design
2011
Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell · as Director Of Photography
2003
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine · as Director Of Photography