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Rithy Panh
Director 62 years old

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 Khmer Rouge regime, he lost his parents and part of his family, and young Rithy witnessed the... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

8 titles
Everything Will Be OK

Everything Will Be OK

Rithy Panh 2022 1h 38m

Animals have enslaved humans and taken over the world. The statues of the past are gone and new ones are erected to suppress the will of the people.

L'image manquante

L'image manquante

Rithy Panh 2013 1h 35m

Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.

Gibier d'élevage

Rithy Panh 2011 1h 31m

When an American plane crashes in the Cambodian jungle, the pilot is taken captive by the Khmer Rouge. They instruct the kids of a village to keep an eye on the prisoner. While the younger kids gradually become friends with the stranger, the older boy called Pang has a different attitude.

Duch, le maître des forges de l'enfer

Duch, le maître des forges de l'enfer

Rithy Panh 2011 1h 43m

Under the Khmer Rouge regime, Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, directed the M13 prison for four years, before becoming the head of S21, the terrifying death machine that eliminated Khmer Rouge opponents. Some 12,280 Cambodians met their deaths here.

Un barrage contre le Pacifique

Un barrage contre le Pacifique

Rithy Panh 2008 1h 55m

A troubled mother's spirit crumbles when her adult children strike out for independence. Feeling abandoned she contemplates taking drastic action.

Le papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise

Le papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise

Rithy Panh 2007 1h 30m

During the last half-century, Cambodia has witnessed genocide, decades of war and the collapse of social order. Now, documentary filmmaker Rithy Panh looks at an irreparable tragedy that is less visible, yet no less pervasive: the spiritual death that results when young women are forced into prostitution.

S-21, la machine de mort Khmère rouge

S-21, la machine de mort Khmère rouge

Rithy Panh 2003 1h 41m

Documentary of the S-21 genocide prison in Phnom Penh with interviews of prisoners and guards. On the search for reasons why this could have happened.

La terre des âmes errantes

Rithy Panh 2000 1h 40m

In 1999 a fibre-glas wire was installed from Thailand to Vietnam straight trough Cambodia. Rithy Panh shows us the work done in Cambodia to connect Khmer-society to "modern world". Farmers, soldiers and children work for a living there and unearthen skulls and bones -their remains from PolPot-regime you can see.

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