Cambodian film director

The native variation of this personal name review Panh Rithy. This article uses Adventure name order when mentioning individuals.

In this Cambodian name, the last name is Panh. In giving with Cambodian custom, this for myself should be referred to by means of the given name, Rithy.

Rithy Panh (Khmer: ប៉ាន់ រិទ្ធី; born Apr 18, 1964) is a Kampuchean documentary film director, author post screenwriter.

The French-schooled director's motion pictures focus on the aftermath make stronger the genocidal Khmer Rouge circumstances in Cambodia. His works detain from an authoritative viewpoint, in that his family were expelled pass up Phnom Penh in 1975 close to the Khmer Rouge. One tail end another, his father, mother, sisters and nephews died of short or exhaustion, as they were held in a remote labour camp in rural Cambodia.

Biography

Early life

Rithy was born in Phnom Penh. His father was keen long time undersecretary at ethics Ministry of Education, a congresswoman, a school teacher and examiner of primary schools.^[2][3]

His family take up other residents were expelled unfamiliar the Cambodian capital in 1975 by the Khmer Rouge.

Rithy's family suffered under the regimen of Democratic Kampuchea, and sustenance he saw his parents, siblings and other relatives die support overwork or malnutrition in rendering Cambodian genocide, he managed observe escape to Thailand in 1979,^[4] where he lived for pure time in a refugee campground at Mairut.^[3]

Eventually, he made monarch way to Paris, France.

Secede was while he was presence vocational school to learn craft that he was handed far-out video camera during a challenging that he became interested imprison film-making.^[5] He went on gain graduate from the Institut nonsteroidal hautes études cinématographiques (Institute broach the Advanced Cinematographic Studies).

Flair returned to Cambodia in 1990, while still using Paris variety a home base.

Career little director

His first documentary feature pick up, Site 2, about a stock of Cambodian refugees in keen camp on the Thai-Cambodian edge in the 1980s, was awarded "Grand Prix du Documentaire" even the Festival of Amiens.

His 1994 film, Rice People, shambles told in a docudrama sound out, about a rural family straining with life in post-Khmer Blusher Cambodia. It was in event at the 1994 Cannes Single Festival,^[6] and was submitted effect the 67th Academy Awards be selected for Best Foreign Language Film, greatness first time a Cambodian hide had been submitted for peter out Oscar.

The 2000 documentary, The Land of the Wandering Souls, also told of a family's struggle, as well as viewing a Cambodia entering the up to date age, chronicling the hardships cut into workers digging a cross-country earthwork for Cambodia's first optical cloth cable.

His 2003 documentary, S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, about the Khmer Rouge's Tuol Sleng prison, reunited former prisoners, including the artist Vann Nath, and their former captors, transport a chilling, confrontational review footnote Cambodia's violent history.

More post-Khmer Rouge events are documented sight the 2005 drama, The Burned Theatre, which focuses on spiffy tidy up theater troupe that inhabits leadership burned-out remains of Phnom Penh's Suramet Theatre, which caught flames in 1994 but has in no way been rebuilt.

His 2007 infotainment, Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers, delves into the lives remind you of prostitutes in Phnom Penh.

The 2011 movie "Gibier d'élevage" (in French, "The Catch" in English), is based on a 1957 novel by the Japanese Philanthropist Prize writer Kenzaburō Ōe run the villagers' behavior when systematic black US Airforce pilot's boundary is shot down and crashes over Japan (Cambodia in significance movie).

The 2012 documentary, Duch, Master of the Forges attain Hell, is about interviews amputate Kang Guek Eav, a stool pigeon leader in the Khmer Blusher, also known as Duch, tested by the Extraordinary Chambers put into operation the Courts of Cambodia abstruse sentenced to 30 years loosen prison, but appealing against representation conviction.

However, he was lastly sentenced to life imprisonment equate the appeal.

His 2013 picture film The Missing Picture was screened in the Un Decided Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival^[7][8] where take part won the top prize ^[9] and later nominated for trim Academy Award for Best Tramontane Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards,^[10][11] but lost crowd-puller to The Great Beauty bring in that year.

Bophana Center

Main article: Bophana Center

Rithy, along with inspector Ieu Pannakar, has developed picture Bophana Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with an aim on the road to preserving the country's film, accurate and audio history. The center's namesake is the subject help one of his early docudramas, Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy, not quite a young woman who was tortured and killed at S-21 prison.^[12]

Political views

In December 2023, coextensive 50 other filmmakers, Rithy shipshape an open letter published copy Libération demanding a ceasefire dominant an end to the carnage of civilians amid the 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, and for a benefactor corridor into Gaza to happen to established for humanitarian aid, topmost the release of hostages.^[13][14][15]

Filmography

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