Rithy Panh
Cambodian film director
0.85body-of-work score · ranked #981 of 2631 directors · 2 films in our library
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- Born
- April 18, 1964 · Phnom Penh
- Nationality
- Cambodia, France
- Work
- film director, screenwriter, production designer, writer
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing MachineS-21, la machine de mort Khmère rouge
2003 · France / Cambodia · documentary, war
Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2004 #2
0.631 citation - 2The Missing PictureL'Image manquante
2013 · France / Cambodia · documentary
Film Comment year-end poll 2014 #24
0.221 citation
Complete filmography
All 21 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1989Site 2
- 1991Cambodia: Between War and Peace
- 1994Rice People
- 1996Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy
- 1998One Evening After the War
- 2000The Land of the Wandering Souls
- 2001Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre
- 2003S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
- 2003The People of Angkor
- 2005The Burnt Theatre
- 2007Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers
- 2008The Sea Wall
- 2011Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell
- 2011Shiiku, the Catch
- 2013The Missing Picture
- 2016Exile
- 2018Graves Without a Name
- 2020Irradiated
- 2022Everything Will Be Ok
- 2024Meeting with Pol Pot
- 2025We Are the Fruits of the Forest