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.

Filmography

• 2026In the Silence After — Executive Producer
• 2025Khmerica — Producer
• 2025We Are the Fruits of the Forest — Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography
• 2024Gunyo Cholo: A Girl Coming of Age Story — Executive Producer
• 2024Meeting with Pol Pot — Pol Pot (voice), Director, Screenplay, Editor
• 2024The Rubber Tappers — Producer
• 2022Everything Will Be OK — Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Writer, Producer
• 2022Irradiated — Director, Editor, Writer, Co-Producer
• 2020Wandering Souls — Filmmaker, Designer
• 201930/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing — Director
• 2019Buoyancy — Executive Producer
• 2019Graves Without a Name — Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography, Editor
• 2017First They Killed My Father — Producer
• 2016Exile — Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Writer
• 2015France Is Our Mother Country — Director
• 2015The Roots Remain — Associate Producer
• 2013Le dernier refuge — Producer
• 2013The Missing Picture — Production Design, Editor, Director, Screenplay
• 2012Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell — Editor, Director of Photography, Writer
• 2012Red Wedding — Producer
• 2011The Catch — Screenplay, Editor, Director
• 2010A Scale Boy — Producer
• 2009The Sea Wall — Director, Writer
• 2007Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers — Writer, Director
• 2005The Burnt Theatre — Director, Writer
• 2004Holy Lola — Monsieur Khieu
• 2004The People of Angkor — Director
• 2003S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine — Screenplay, Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Cinematography, Idea, Story, Script, Writer
• 2001Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre — Director, Writer
• 2000The Land of the Wandering Souls — Writer, Director
• 1998One Evening After the War — Writer, Director
• 1996Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy — Director
• 1994Rice People — Director, Writer
• 1991Cambodia: Between War and Peace — Director
• 1991Cinéastes de notre temps : Souleymane Cissé — Director
• 1989Site 2 — Writer, Director
• nº72 — Director, Writer

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2021Life in 24 Frames a Second — Self
• Kulturplatz — Self