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Rithy Panh
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…
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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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2026
In the Silence After
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
We Are the Fruits of the Forest
Movie Director
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2025
Khmerica
Movie Producer
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2024
The Rubber Tappers
Movie Producer
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2024
Gunyo Cholo: A Girl Coming of Age Story
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
Meeting with Pol Pot
Movie Pol Pot (voice)
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2022
Everything Will Be OK
Movie Director
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2022
Irradiated
Movie Director
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2021
Life in 24 Frames a Second
Movie Self
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2020
Wandering Souls
Movie Filmmaker, Designer
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2019
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Movie Director
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2019
Graves Without a Name
Movie Screenplay
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2019
Buoyancy
Movie Executive Producer
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2017
First They Killed My Father
Movie Producer
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2016
Exile
Movie Director
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2015
The Roots Remain
Movie Associate Producer
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2015
France Is Our Mother Country
Movie Director
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2013
The Missing Picture
Movie Editor
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2013
Le dernier refuge
Movie Producer
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2012
Red Wedding
Movie Producer
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2012
Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell
Movie Director of Photography
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2011
The Catch
Movie Editor
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2010
A Scale Boy
Movie Producer
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2009
The Sea Wall
Movie Director
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2007
Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers
Movie Director
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2005
The Burnt Theatre
Movie Writer
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2004
Holy Lola
Movie Monsieur Khieu
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2004
Kulturplatz
TV show Self
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2004
The People of Angkor
Movie Director
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2003
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
Movie Screenplay
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2001
Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre
Movie Director
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2000
The Land of the Wandering Souls
Movie Writer
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1998
One Evening After the War
Movie Director
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1996
Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy
Movie Director
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1994
Rice People
Movie Director
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1991
Cinéastes de notre temps : Souleymane Cissé
Movie Director
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1991
Cambodia: Between War and Peace
Movie Director
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1989
Site 2
Movie Writer
