Biography
Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh addressed his country’s terrible past in his previous works as well; Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge exterminated more than two million people. When Panh decided to shoot a highly personal documentary in which he planned to share his memories from the labor camp where many of his family members lost their lives, he realized that he didn’t have any photographs from 1975 to 1979 that might help to paint a picture of the horrors of genocide and thus truthfully depict a piece of Cambodia’s history. “Of course, a photograph on its own cannot be proof of mass murder,” says Rithy Panh. “But it can force you to think. While vainly searching archives and documents throughout the country, it occurred to me to replace it with something that I would make myself and that would take the place of the missing photograph.” Using ceramic figures, the director has succeeded in bringing to life his lost childhood while providing eloquent testimony to his family’s tragedy.
48. MFF Karlovy Vary
Director
Movies | |
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2024 |
Meeting with Pol Pot |
2019 |
30/30 Vision: 3 Decades of Strand Releasing |
2011 |
Shiiku, the Catch |
2008 |
The Sea Wall |
2001 |
Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre |
1998 |
Un soir après la guerre |
1994 |
The Rice People |
Series | |
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1996 |
Lumière sur un massacre |
Documentaries | |
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2022 |
Everything Will Be Ok |
2020 |
Irradiated |
2018 |
Graves Without a Name |
2016 |
Exile |
2014 |
France Is Our Mother Country |
2013 |
The Missing Picture |
2011 |
Duch: Master of the Forges of Hell |
2007 |
Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers |
2005 |
The Burnt Theatre |
2003 |
Les Gens d'Angkor |
S21, The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine |
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2002 |
Wide Angle (series) |
2000 |
The Land of the Wandering Souls |
1996 |
Bophana, une tragédie cambodgienne |
1991 |
Cambodia, entre guerre et paix |
1989 |
Site 2 |
Screenwriter
Movies | |
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2024 |
Meeting with Pol Pot |
2011 |
Shiiku, the Catch |
2008 |
The Sea Wall |
Documentaries | |
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2022 |
Everything Will Be Ok |
2020 |
Irradiated |
2018 |
Graves Without a Name |
2016 |
Exile |
2013 |
The Missing Picture |
2011 |
Duch: Master of the Forges of Hell |
2007 |
Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers |
2005 |
The Burnt Theatre |
2000 |
The Land of the Wandering Souls |
1996 |
Bophana, une tragédie cambodgienne |
Cinematographer
Documentaries | |
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2022 |
Everything Will Be Ok |
2018 |
Graves Without a Name |
2016 |
Exile |
2014 |
France Is Our Mother Country |
2003 |
S21, The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine |
Editor
Movies | |
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2024 |
Meeting with Pol Pot |
2011 |
Shiiku, the Catch |
Documentaries | |
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2022 |
Everything Will Be Ok |
2020 |
Irradiated |
2016 |
Exile |
2014 |
France Is Our Mother Country |
Performer
Shows | |
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2018 |
Front Row Flynn |
2014 |
Oscar's Red Carpet 2014 |
The 86th Annual Academy Awards |
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2008 |
La Grande Librairie |
1981 |
13 heures le journal |
Actor
Movies | |
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2004 |
Holy Lola |
Documentaries | |
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2021 |
Life in 24 Frames a Second |
Producer
Documentaries | |
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2013 |
Where I Go |
2012 |
Red Wedding |
2010 |
The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan |