Rithy Panh

Rithy Panh was born on 18 April 1964 in Phnom Penh. He was eleven when the Khmer Rouge took power, and lost his parents and part of his family during the years of forced labour; in 1979 he reached a camp in Thailand, then France the following year. A graduate in 1988 of the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, he made a first documentary, which won an award, before this first feature-length fiction film. He co-founded the Bophana centre in Phnom Penh, the cinematheque of Cambodia, and devotes most of his work to the genocide and to the memory of its victims.

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• Feature filmRice Peopleអ្នកស្រែRithy Panh · 1994Cinema