Rithy Panh
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Rithy Panh (born April 18, 1964) is a Cambodian documentary film producer and screenwriter. The French-schooled director's films in Cambodia examine the aftermath of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime.
Rithy Panh's works are from an authoritative viewpoint, because his family was banned from Phnom Penh by the Khmer Rouge in 1975.
One after another, his father, mother, sisters, and nephews died of starvation or exhaustion while being detained in a remote work camp in rural Cambodia.
Early life, escape from Cambodia
Rithy Panh was born in Phnom Penh. His father served as a long-serving undercover at the Ministry of Education for a long time; a senator, a school teacher, and an inspector of primary schools.
The Khmer Rouge sacked his family and others from Cambodia's capital in 1975. Rithy's family suffered under the regime, and after he saw his parents, siblings, and other relatives die of overwork or hunger, Rithy's family fled to Thailand in 1979, where he spent a time in a refugee camp in Mairut.
He eventually moved to Paris, France. He was given a video camera at a party that he was attending vocational school to learn carpentry, and he learned that filmmaking had been his passion. He went on to graduate from Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies). In 1990, he returned to Cambodia, while still using Paris as a home base.
At the Festival of Amiens, his first documentary feature film, Site 2, about a family of Cambodian refugees in a camp on the Thai-Cambodian border in the 1980s, was named "Grand Prix du Documentaire."
Rice People, his 1994 film, is told in a docudrama style about a rural family in Cambodia's post-Khmer Rouge country. It was the first time a Cambodian film had been nominated for an Academy Award at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, and it was submitted to the 67th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film for the first time.
The Land of the Wandering Souls, a 2000 documentary that included a family's struggle as well as showcasing a Cambodian advancing to the modern age, chronicling workers' struggles digging a cross-country trench for Cambodia's first optical fiber cable.
The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, a 2003 film, reunited former prisoners in Tuol Sleng's Tuol Sleng jail, including artist Vann Nath, and their former captors, for a chilling, conflictual account of Cambodia's violent past.
In the 2005 drama, The Burnt Theatre, which focuses on a theater company that inhabits the burned-out remains of Phnom Penh's Suramet Theatre, which caught fire in 1994 but has never been rebuilt.
In Phnom Penh, his 2007 documentary, Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers, delves into the lives of prostitutes.
"Gibier d'levage," a 2011 film based on a 1957 book by Japanese Nobel Prize writer Kenzabur's, about the villagers' behaviour when a black US Airforce pilot's plane is shot down and crashes over Japan (Cambodia in the film).
The documentary, Duch, the Forge of Hell, was about interviews with Kang Guev, a former Khmer Rouge leader and known as Duch, who was sentenced to 30 years in jail by the Extraordinary Chambers, but the appeal has been appealed. After the appeal, however, he was eventually sentenced to life in prison.
In the Uncertain Regard section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, his 2013 documentary film The Missing Picture was shown.
Career as director
At the Festival of Amiens, his first documentary feature film, Site 2, about a family of Cambodian refugees in a camp on the Thai-Cambodian border in the 1980s, was honoured "Grand Prix du Documentaire."
Rice People, his 1994 film, is told in a docudrama style about a rural family in Cambodia's post-Khmer Rouge region. It was in competition at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film by the 67th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, the first time a Cambodian film had been nominated for an Oscar.
The Land of the Wandering Souls, a 2000 documentary that told the story of a family's struggle as well as showcasing a Cambodian embracing the modern age, chronicling the challenges of workers digging a cross-country trench for Cambodia's first optical fiber cable.
S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, a 2003 documentary film starring Cambodian veteran prisoners, including artist Vann Nath and his former captors, was released in a chilling, confrontational analysis of Cambodia's violent past.
More post-Khmer Rouge performances have been chronicled in the 2005 drama, The Burnt Theatre, which focuses on a theater troupe that has inhabited the burned-out remains of Phnom Penh's Suramet Theatre, which burned out in 1994 but has never been rebuilt.
In Phnom Penh, his 2007 film, Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers, delves into the lives of prostitutes.
The 2011 film "Gibier d'élevage" (in French, "The Catch") is based on a 1957 novel by Japanese Nobel Prize writer Kenzabur'e about the villagers' behaviour after a black US Airforce pilot's plane is shot down and crashes over Japan (Cambodia in the film).
Duch, the Forge of Hell's 2012 documentary, is about interviews with Kang Guev, a former Khmer Rouge commander and also known as Duch, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison by the Extraordinary Chambers but appealing the sentence. After the appeal, however, he was eventually sentenced to life in prison.
The Missing Picture, a 2013 documentary film by Robert Coveney, was shown in the Uncertain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, where it took home the top prize.