Panh, Rithy

(April 18, 1964, Phnom Penh, Cambodia-)

   Imprisoned in a rehabilitation camp by the Khmer Rouge in 1975, he escaped to Thailand and took refuge in Paris in 1980. Having graduated from the IDHEC, he shot a first documentary on Cambodian refugee camps (Site 2). He teaches at the Fémis.

 Filmography

1989 ◘ Site 2 / Das Land der Anderen (documentary; also screenwriter; France / West Germany)

1991 ◘ Cambodia, entre Guerre et Paix (documentary; Cambodia)

1994 ◘ Les Gens de la Rizière / Neak sre / Das Reisfeld / UK and USA: Rice People (France / Cambodia / Switzerland / Germany; shot in 1992)

1996 ◘ Bophana, une Tragédie cambodgienne (documentary; France / Cambodia)

1998 ◘ Un Soir après la Guerre / USA: One Evening After the War (France / Cambodia; shot in 1996-1997)

2001 ◘ Quand la Barque se brise, que la Jonque s'ouvre (also screenwriter, dialogist; France / Cambodia)

2003 ◘ Les Gens d'Angkor (documentary; France / Cambodia)

        ◘ L-21, la Machine de Mort Khmère rouge / USA: S21:The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (documentary; also screenwriter; France / Cambodia)

2005 ◘ Les Artistes du Théâtre Brûlé (documentary; also co-screenwriter; Cambodia / France)

        ◘ Le Papier ne peut pas envelopper la Braise (documentary; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Un Barrage contre le Pacifique (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Cambodia)

 Television Filmography

1990 ◘ Cinéma de notre Temps (documentary; episode "Souleymane Cissé")

2002 ◘ Wide Angle (documentary; episode "La Terre des Âmes errantes" / "Land of the Wandering Souls"; also screenwriter)