Rithy Panh

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1964-04-18 (61 years old)

Place of Birth

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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 impr...

Acting

2004

Holy Lola

as Monsieur Khieu

2024

Meeting with Pol Pot

as Pol Pot (voice)

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Wandering Souls

as Filmmaker, Designer

Production

2003

S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

as Director of Photography

2013

2013

The Missing Picture

as Production Design

2012

Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell

as Director of Photography

2009

The Sea Wall

as Director

2011

The Catch

as Screenplay

2011

The Catch

as Editor

1994

Rice People

as Director

2013

2013

The Missing Picture

as Screenplay

2011

The Catch

as Director

2012

Red Wedding

as Producer

1989

Site 2

as Director

1989

Site 2

as Writer

2005

2005

2009

The Sea Wall

as Writer

2010

A Scale Boy

as Producer

2004

2022

2022

Everything Will Be OK

as Director of Photography

2022

2016

Exile

as Director

2024

1994

Rice People

as Writer

2024

2016

Exile

as Writer

2016

Exile

as Director of Photography

2016

Exile

as Editor

2015

The Roots Remain

as Associate Producer

2019

2019

2019

Graves Without a Name

as Director of Photography

2022

Irradiated

as Director

2022

Irradiated

as Writer

2022

Irradiated

as Editor

2022

Irradiated

as Co-Producer

2019

Buoyancy

as Executive Producer

2024

2025

Khmerica

as Producer

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