Rithy Panh

ProducerDirectorCinematographerWriterActor Apr 18 (age 61) Phnom Penh, Cambodia 1989–2025 (36 year career)

6.2 avg rating

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 diff…

Known For

Film

First They Killed My Father

Producer

Film

The Missing Picture

Director

Film

S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

Camera Operator

Film

Buoyancy

Executive Producer

Film

Meeting with Pol Pot

Pol Pot (voice)

Film

The Sea Wall

Director

Film

Holy Lola

Monsieur Khieu

Film

Rice People

Director

Filmography

Acting (5)

Movies (4)

Meeting with Pol Pot

2024

as Pol Pot (voice)

5.9

Life in 24 Frames a Second

2021

as Self

Holy Lola

2004

as Monsieur Khieu

5.9

Wandering Souls

as Filmmaker, Designer

Television (1)

Kulturplatz

2004

as Self

6.0

Crew (69)

Movies (69)

Khmerica

2025

Producer

We Are the Fruits of the Forest

2025

Director

We Are the Fruits of the Forest

2025

Director of Photography

We Are the Fruits of the Forest

2025

Producer

We Are the Fruits of the Forest

2025

Writer

Meeting with Pol Pot

Director

Meeting with Pol Pot

Editor

Meeting with Pol Pot

Screenplay

The Rubber Tappers

Producer

Irradiated

Co-Producer

Irradiated

Director

Irradiated

Editor

Irradiated

Writer

Everything Will Be OK

2022

Director

Everything Will Be OK

2022

Director of Photography

Everything Will Be OK

2022

Editor

Everything Will Be OK

2022

Producer

Everything Will Be OK

2022

Writer

Buoyancy

2019

Executive Producer

7.0

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

2019

Director

5.3

Graves Without a Name

2019

Director

5.0

Graves Without a Name

2019

Director of Photography

5.0

Graves Without a Name

2019

Editor

5.0

Graves Without a Name

2019

Screenplay

5.0

First They Killed My Father

Producer

Exile

Director

Exile

Director of Photography

Exile

Editor

Exile

Writer

The Roots Remain

Associate Producer

France Is Our Mother Country

2015

Director

6.0

Le dernier refuge

2013

Producer

The Missing Picture

Director

The Missing Picture

Editor

The Missing Picture

Production Design

The Missing Picture

Screenplay

Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell

2012

Director

6.8

Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell

2012

Director of Photography

6.8

Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell

2012

Editor

6.8

Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell

2012

Writer

6.8

Red Wedding

2012

Producer

The Catch

Director

The Catch

Editor

The Catch

Screenplay

A Scale Boy

Producer

The Sea Wall

Director

The Sea Wall

Writer

Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers

2007

Director

6.2

Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers

Writer

The Burnt Theatre

Director

The Burnt Theatre

Writer

The People of Angkor

Director

S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

2003

Camera Operator

7.4

S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

2003

Director

7.4

S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

2003

Director of Photography

7.4

S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

2003

Screenplay

7.4

Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre

2001

Director

Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre

2001

Writer

The Land of the Wandering Souls

2000

Director

5.7

The Land of the Wandering Souls

2000

Writer

5.7

One Evening After the War

1998

Director

4.7

One Evening After the War

1998

Writer

4.7

Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy

Director

Rice People

Director

Rice People

Writer

Cinéastes de notre temps : Souleymane Cissé

1991

Director

Cambodia: Between War and Peace

1991

Director

Site 2

1989

Director

Site 2

1989

Writer