Rithy Panh

Rithy Panh

Rithy PANH (1964, Phnom Penh, Cambodia) fled to Thailand in 1979 after spending four years in the camps of the Khmer Rouge. A year later he moved to Paris, where he studied film at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques. Panh mainly makes documentaries, several of which have won prizes.


Filmography

Site 2 (1989, doc), Cinéma de notre temps: Souleymane Cissé (1990, TV doc), Cambodge, entre guerre et paix (1991, doc), Neak Srê/Rice People (1994), The Tan's Family (1995), Bophana, une tragédie cambodgienne/Bophana, a Cambodian tragedy (1996, doc), Un soir après la guerre (1998), Lumières sur un massacre, 10 films against 110 000 000 landmines (1997), 50 ans et un monde (1997), La terre des âmes errantes/The Land of the Wandering Souls (1999, doc), Que la barque se brise, que la jongue s'entrouve (2001, TV), S21 - la machine de mort Khmère Rouge/S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine (2002, doc), Les gens d' Angkor/The People of Angkor (2003, doc), Les artistes du théâtre brûlé/The Burnt Theatre (2005, doc), Le papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise/Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers (2007, doc), Un barrage contre le Pacifique/The Sea Wall (2008), Duc, le maître des forges de l'enfer/Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell (2011, doc)