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name: "Rithy Panh"
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fi1m_id: "rithy-panh"
imdb_id: "nm0659454"
tmdb_id: 129896
wikidata_id: "Q1683688"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "18 April 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-02T23:57:08.447931+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Rithy Panh

## Identity

Rithy Panh

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rithy-panh
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rithy-panh
- **IMDb ID:** nm0659454
- **TMDB ID:** 129896
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1683688
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rithy_Panh, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1683688, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659454/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/129896

Producer. Born 18 April 1964 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 18 April 1964, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rithy_Panh, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1683688, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659454/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/129896

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*First They Killed My Father*](https://film.one/film/first-they-killed-my-father.md) (66)

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## Biography

Rithy Panh is a Cambodian-French documentary filmmaker, director, producer and screenwriter. He was born on 18 April 1964 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

His family was expelled from the capital by the Khmer Rouge in 1975; most relatives died of starvation or exhaustion in labour camps. Panh escaped to Thailand in 1979 and reached France in 1980. He trained at La Fémis (formerly IDHEC) in Paris. His early documentary Site 2 (1989) examined life in a refugee camp.

Panh’s films frequently address the legacy of the Khmer Rouge regime. Notable works include S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003) and the Oscar-nominated The Missing Picture (2013). He produced Angelina Jolie’s First They Killed My Father (2017) and co-founded the Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center in Phnom Penh.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *First They Killed My Father* (2017), Fi1m 66, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/first-they-killed-my-father.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *In the Silence After* (2026), Executive Producer
- *We Are the Fruits of the Forest* (2025), Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography
- *Khmerica* (2025), Producer
- *The Rubber Tappers* (2024), Producer
- *Gunyo Cholo: A Girl Coming of Age Story* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Meeting with Pol Pot* (2024), as Pol Pot (voice) · Director, Screenplay, Editor
- *Everything Will Be OK* (2022), Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Writer, Producer
- *Irradiated* (2022), Director, Editor, Writer, Co-Producer
- *Wandering Souls* (2020), as Filmmaker · Designer
- *30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing* (2019), Director
- *Graves Without a Name* (2019), Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography, Editor
- *Buoyancy* (2019), Executive Producer
- *First They Killed My Father* (2017), Producer — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/first-they-killed-my-father.md)
- *Exile* (2016), Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Writer
- *The Roots Remain* (2015), Associate Producer
- *France Is Our Mother Country* (2015), Director
- *The Missing Picture* (2013), Production Design, Editor, Director, Screenplay
- *Le dernier refuge* (2013), Producer
- *Red Wedding* (2012), Producer
- *Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell* (2012), Editor, Director of Photography, Writer, Director
- *The Catch* (2011), Screenplay, Editor, Director
- *A Scale Boy* (2010), Producer
- *The Sea Wall* (2009), Director, Writer
- *Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers* (2007), Writer, Director
- *The Burnt Theatre* (2005), Director, Writer
- *Holy Lola* (2004), as Monsieur Khieu
- *The People of Angkor* (2004), Director
- *S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine* (2003), Screenplay, Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Director, Cinematography, Idea, Story, Script, Writer
- *Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre* (2001), Director, Writer
- *The Land of the Wandering Souls* (2000), Writer, Director
- *One Evening After the War* (1998), Writer, Director
- *Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy* (1996), Director
- *Rice People* (1994), Director, Writer
- *Cinéastes de notre temps : Souleymane Cissé* (1991), Director
- *Cambodia: Between War and Peace* (1991), Director
- *Site 2* (1989), Writer, Director

## Gallery

- ![اختتامیه سی و ششمین جشنواره جهانی فیلم فجر (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/4170131/gallery-a51b96c2fccf.jpg) اختتامیه سی و ششمین جشنواره جهانی فیلم فجر (2018) — Mahdi Bolourian, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Oliver_Stone_Rithy_Panh_and_Hanna_Slak_in_Closing_ceremony_of_the_2018_Fajr_International_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Renee Soutendijk, Ursina Lardi, Rithy Panh, Joslyn Barnes attend the "Le Pays d'Arto" red carpet during the 78th Locarno Film Festival on August 06, 2025 in Loc](https://film.one/media/person/4170131/gallery-4103d4d02348.jpg) Renee Soutendijk, Ursina Lardi, Rithy Panh, Joslyn Barnes attend the "Le Pays d'Arto" red carpet during the 78th Locarno Film Festival on August 06, 2025 in Loc — Segolene Liger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Renee_Soutendijk%2C_Ursina_Lardi%2C_Rithy_Panh%2C_Joslyn_Barnes_at_the_2025_Locarno_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Renee_Soutendijk%2C_Ursina_Lardi%2C_Rithy_Panh%2C_Joslyn_Barnes_at_the_2025_Locarno_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Film director Rithy Panh at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/4170131/gallery-eadd9ec02893.jpg) Film director Rithy Panh at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Rithy_Panh-.jpg/1280px-Rithy_Panh-.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rithy Panh](https://film.one/media/person/4170131/gallery-00c5137b7207.jpg) Rithy Panh — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Rithy_Panh-3681.jpg/1280px-Rithy_Panh-3681.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Film director Rithy Panh at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/4170131/gallery-dfc2b11506c0.jpg) Film director Rithy Panh at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (2022) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Rithy_Panh-3686.jpg/1280px-Rithy_Panh-3686.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 8 won, 1 nominated

- Prix Marguerite Duras 2020: Prix Marguerite Duras (won)
- European Film Award for Best Documentary 2013: European Film Award for Best Documentary (nominated), for *The Missing Picture*
- Joseph-Kessel Prize 2012: Joseph-Kessel Prize (won)
- Livre et droits humains award 2012: Livre et droits humains award (won)
- “Today” Prize 2012: “Today” Prize (won)
- honorary doctor of Paris 8 University 2011: honorary doctor of Paris 8 University (won)
- European Film Award for Best Documentary 2007: European Film Award for Best Documentary (won), for *Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers*
- Albert Londres Prize for the best audiovisual reporter 2004: Albert Londres Prize for the best audiovisual reporter (won), for *S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine*
- European Film Award for Best Documentary 2003: European Film Award for Best Documentary (won), for *S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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