Rithy Panh

Directing

Born: 1964-04-18
From: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.2

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.

Awards & Nominations8 won · 3 nominated

🏆 Won

Prix Marguerite Duras

2020
Nominated

European Film Award for Best Documentary

The Missing Picture

2013
🏆 Won

Livre et droits humains award

2012
🏆 Won

Joseph-Kessel Prize

2012
🏆 Won

“Today” Prize

2012
🏆 Won

honorary doctor of Paris 8 University

2011
🏆 Won

European Film Award for Best Documentary

Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers

2007
Nominated

European Film Award for Best Documentary

Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers

2007
🏆 Won

Albert Londres Prize for the best audiovisual reporter

S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

2004
🏆 Won

European Film Award for Best Documentary

S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

2003
Nominated

European Film Award for Best Documentary

S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

2003

Acting5 titles

Directing20 titles

Writing15 titles

Production11 titles

Camera6 titles

Art1 title

Editing7 titles