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Rithy Panh (b. 1964)

Birthplace:
Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Born:
April 18, 1964

Biography from TheMovieDB

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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Film Production

Camera Operator:
2003  S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine

Co-Producer:
2003  S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
2015  The Roots Remain
2022  Irradiated

Director:
1989  Site 2
1993  Cinéastes de notre temps: Souleymane Cissé
1994  Rice People
1996  Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy
1998  One Evening After the War
2000  The Land of the Wandering Souls
2001  Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre
2003  S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
2004  The People of Angkor
2005  The Burnt Theatre
2007  Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers
2009  The Sea Wall
2011  The Catch
2012  Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell
2013  The Missing Picture
2015  France Is Our Mother Country
2015  The Roots Remain
2016  Exile
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019  Graves Without a Name
2022  Everything Will Be OK
2022  Irradiated
2024  Meeting with Pol Pot

Director of Photography:
1989  Site 2
1993  Cinéastes de notre temps: Souleymane Cissé
1994  Rice People
1996  Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy
1998  One Evening After the War
2000  The Land of the Wandering Souls
2001  Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre
2003  S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
2004  The People of Angkor
2005  The Burnt Theatre
2007  Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers
2009  The Sea Wall
2011  The Catch
2012  Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell
2013  The Missing Picture
2015  France Is Our Mother Country
2015  The Roots Remain
2016  Exile
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019  Graves Without a Name
2022  Everything Will Be OK
2022  Irradiated
2024  Meeting with Pol Pot

Editor:
1989  Site 2
1993  Cinéastes de notre temps: Souleymane Cissé
1994  Rice People
1996  Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy
1998  One Evening After the War
2000  The Land of the Wandering Souls
2001  Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre
2003  S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
2004  The People of Angkor
2005  The Burnt Theatre
2007  Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers
2009  The Sea Wall
2011  The Catch
2012  Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell
2013  The Missing Picture
2015  France Is Our Mother Country
2015  The Roots Remain
2016  Exile
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019  Graves Without a Name
2022  Everything Will Be OK
2022  Irradiated
2024  Meeting with Pol Pot

Executive Producer:
1989  Site 2
1993  Cinéastes de notre temps: Souleymane Cissé
1994  Rice People
1996  Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy
1998  One Evening After the War
2000  The Land of the Wandering Souls
2001  Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre
2003  S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
2004  The People of Angkor
2005  The Burnt Theatre
2007  Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers
2009  The Sea Wall
2011  The Catch
2012  Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell
2013  The Missing Picture
2015  France Is Our Mother Country
2015  The Roots Remain
2016  Exile
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019  Buoyancy
2019  Graves Without a Name
2022  Everything Will Be OK
2022  Irradiated
2024  Meeting with Pol Pot

Producer:
1989  Site 2
1993  Cinéastes de notre temps: Souleymane Cissé
1994  Rice People
1996  Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy
1998  One Evening After the War
2000  The Land of the Wandering Souls
2001  Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre
2003  S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
2004  The People of Angkor
2005  The Burnt Theatre
2007  Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers
2009  The Sea Wall
2010  A Scale Boy
2011  The Catch
2012  Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell
2012  Red Wedding
2013  The Missing Picture
2015  France Is Our Mother Country
2015  The Roots Remain
2016  Exile
2017  First They Killed My Father
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019  Buoyancy
2019  Graves Without a Name
2022  Everything Will Be OK
2022  Irradiated
2024  Meeting with Pol Pot

Production Design:
1989  Site 2
1993  Cinéastes de notre temps: Souleymane Cissé
1994  Rice People
1996  Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy
1998  One Evening After the War
2000  The Land of the Wandering Souls
2001  Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre
2003  S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
2004  The People of Angkor
2005  The Burnt Theatre
2007  Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers
2009  The Sea Wall
2010  A Scale Boy
2011  The Catch
2012  Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell
2012  Red Wedding
2013  The Missing Picture
2015  France Is Our Mother Country
2015  The Roots Remain
2016  Exile
2017  First They Killed My Father
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019  Buoyancy
2019  Graves Without a Name
2022  Everything Will Be OK
2022  Irradiated
2024  Meeting with Pol Pot

Screenplay:
1989  Site 2
1993  Cinéastes de notre temps: Souleymane Cissé
1994  Rice People
1996  Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy
1998  One Evening After the War
2000  The Land of the Wandering Souls
2001  Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre
2003  S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
2004  The People of Angkor
2005  The Burnt Theatre
2007  Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers
2009  The Sea Wall
2010  A Scale Boy
2011  The Catch
2012  Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell
2012  Red Wedding
2013  The Missing Picture
2015  France Is Our Mother Country
2015  The Roots Remain
2016  Exile
2017  First They Killed My Father
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019  Buoyancy
2019  Graves Without a Name
2022  Everything Will Be OK
2022  Irradiated
2024  Meeting with Pol Pot

Writer:
1989  Site 2
1993  Cinéastes de notre temps: Souleymane Cissé
1994  Rice People
1996  Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy
1998  One Evening After the War
2000  The Land of the Wandering Souls
2001  Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre
2003  S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
2004  The People of Angkor
2005  The Burnt Theatre
2007  Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers
2009  The Sea Wall
2010  A Scale Boy
2011  The Catch
2012  Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell
2012  Red Wedding
2013  The Missing Picture
2015  France Is Our Mother Country
2015  The Roots Remain
2016  Exile
2017  First They Killed My Father
2019  30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019  Buoyancy
2019  Graves Without a Name
2022  Everything Will Be OK
2022  Irradiated
2024  Meeting with Pol Pot

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