Rithy Panh
Biography
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.
Directed Films
We Are the Fruits of the Forest
Meeting with Pol Pot
Everything Will Be OK
Irradiated
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Graves Without a Name
Exile
France Is Our Mother Country
The Missing Picture
Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell
The Sea Wall
Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers
The Burnt Theatre
The People of Angkor
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre
Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy
Rice People
Cinéastes de notre temps : Souleymane Cissé
