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Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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Movie Involvements: 57

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

First They Killed My Father
Average
7

First They Killed My Father

(2017) Producer
The Missing Picture
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7

The Missing Picture

(2013) Screenplay
S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
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7
The Sea Wall
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5

The Sea Wall

(2009) Writer
Buoyancy
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7

Buoyancy

(2019) Executive Producer
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
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5
Everything Will Be OK
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0

Everything Will Be OK

(2022) Writer
A Scale Boy
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0

A Scale Boy

(2010) Producer

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2021 Self
2004 Monsieur Khieu
Filmmaker, Designer
Year Character Movie/Tv

Camera

Year Role Movie/Tv
2022 Director of Photography
2019 Director of Photography
2012 Director of Photography
2003 Camera Operator
Director of Photography
Year Role Movie/Tv

Directing

Editing

Production

Writing

Art

Year Role Movie/Tv
2013 Production Design
Year Role Movie/Tv

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