Rithy Panh — Director (18)

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Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy (1996)
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other title: Bophana, une tragédie cambodgienne
Based upon documentation of forced confessions made during the Khmer Rouge era in Cambodia, this film reconstructs the relationship of a young woman, Hout Bophana, and Ly Sitha before they were tortured in executed in 1977.

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We Are the Fruits of the Forest (2025)
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other title: Nous Sommes les Fruits de la Forêt / 我们是森林的果实 …
This documentary follows, for four years, the ethnic minorities in Cambodia's northern mountainous regions who maintain a traditional lifestyle, highlighting co-existence with nature and other issues.

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SHIIKU (2011)
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other title: Gibier d'Elevage / 飼育 …
Cambodia in 1972. For the naïve, mesmerized Cambodian young child telling this story, the black soldier who was taken prisoner was not an enemy, but merely an animal that needs to be taken care of.

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One Evening After the War (1998)
រាត្រីមួយក្រោយសង្គ្រាម Douban
other title: 战后的一夜 / 战后的某个夜晚 …
本片的故事背景设在柬埔寨战后一片碎石瓦砾的金边(Phnom Penh), 描绘了返乡的战士在道德和肉体受到极度摧残而满目疮痍的心灵家园中重新开始新生活的艰辛. 在漫长的战争过后, 士兵 萨瓦纳 返回了故乡的小镇, 他在那儿邂逅了一位美丽的酒吧女, 而残酷的生活似乎注定了这段爱情的悲剧...

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Meeting with Pol Pot (2024)
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★ 6.4 14 ratings
other title: 会见波尔布特 / Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot …
1978. Cambodia, which was renamed Democratic Kampuchea, has been under the rule of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge for three years. The country is economically devastated and nearly 2 million Cambodians died during an as-yet unspoken genocide. Three French people have accepted the regime’s invitation in hopes to get an exclusive interview with Pol Pot – a reporter who’s familiar with the country, a photojournalist and an intellectual who feels close to the revolutionary ideology. But as they find out a different reality behind the propaganda and get special treatment by the regime, all their convictions are gradually being turned upside down.

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The Land of the Wandering Souls (2000)
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other title: 遊魂之地 / La Terre des âmes errantes …
The film follows a Cambodian family as they work to dig a trench across Cambodia to lay the country's first optical fiber cable, depicting their hardships. At one point during their excavation, the workers uncover a killing field, a remnant of the genocidal purges of the Khmer Rouge.

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Graves Without a Name (2018)
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other title: 无名冢 / ផ្នូរគ្មានឈ្មោះ …
剃度受戒,就能去掉塵世恨怨,渡越死生?哀莫大於心不死,四十年前赤柬大屠殺未敢忘記,望能尋覓埋葬至親的無名亂塚。哀詩低迴,生者戚戚道來慘痛過去,默默奉上祭品超渡亡靈,苦難卻是陰魂不散。潘禮德孤守記憶的陵墓,延續得獎作《被消失的影像》(2013)未竟之旅,以光影銘記歷史傷痕。父母音容浮沉人間深河,姊妹破衣隱現血染大地,美得令人心碎的沉重影像,慰藉無涯思念,亦盼喚醒壓抑生靈,別讓業障輪迴。

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Paper Cannot Wrap Ember (2007)
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other title: 纸包不住火 / Le papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise
本片讲述了居住在金边贫民窟的妓女的悲惨遭遇,她们因家庭贫困而别无选择,原以为进城后她们的生活会大有改善,可一切都是老鸨的花言巧语。她们被迫日日工作,忍受着客人的折磨和老鸨的苛刻。同时,她们还面临着毒品和性病的威胁。她们如同陷入绝境,有家不能回,有亲人无颜认。日复一日,年复一年,女孩们各奔东西,有的生了孩子,有的开始贩毒,有的被善良的客人带走。新人换旧人,又有一批山里来的孩子将步入这贫民窟……

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Exil (2016)
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潘礼德 actor: 兰德尔·杜丝
other title: 放逐 / 被放逐的回忆(港) …
Exil is a visionary narration of the exile of Cambodians during the Red Khmer regime, during which the country was renamed Democratic Kampuchea.

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Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell (2011)
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other title: 杜赫:炼狱魔王 / Duch, Le Maître Des Forges De L'Enfer
Sous le régime Khmer rouge, Kaing Guek Eav, dit Duch, a dirigé la prison M13 pendant 4 ans, avant d'être nommé à la tête du S21, la terrifiante machine à éliminer les opposants au pouvoir en place. Quelque 12280 Cambodgiens y trouvèrent la mort. En juillet 2010, Duch fut le premier dirigeant Khmer à comparaître devant une cour de justice pénale internationale, qui le condamna à 35 de prison. Il fit appel du jugement. Alors que Duch attend son nouveau procès, Rithy Panh l'a longuement interrogé et a recueilli sa parole...

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France Is Our Mother Country (2015)
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other title: 法国,我们的祖国 / La France est Notre Patrie …
If you would like to witness the forces of colonialism in brute action, Rithy Panh’s extraordinary new film provides the long view. A masterpiece of editing, the film assembles archival footage and antiqued title cards into a wordless recapturing of the Indochinese Empire, beginning with the early days of French occupation. In this prelapsarian age, everything is golden with promise. Ladies, in empire waist gowns and enormous hats, throw candies to local children. Great steamships carry French culture abroad, and the Tricolore flag flies on high.

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The Burnt Theatre (2005)
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other title: 被烧毁的剧院的演员们 / Les Artistes du theatre brule …
A blend of fact and fiction, based on the actual lives of the actors, the film depicts a troupe of actors and dancers struggling to practice their art in the burned-out shell of Cambodia's former national theater, the Preah Suramarit National Theater in Phnom Penh.

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Everything Will Be OK (2022)
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other title: 一切安好 / 一切都会好起来的 …
A megalith rises from a sandy desert – or rather, a scale model of such a landscape. “I am the archive”, says a young female voice while ominous string music nails viewers to their seats. This opening sets the stage for the narrative and figurative language of Rithy Panh’s dense mnemonic essay which uses stunning dioramas to tell a twenty-first century dystopian story. After a century of genocidal ideologies and destructive speciesism, animals have enslaved humans and taken over the world. In a wave of hope, the statues of the past have been removed but new ones are being erected to suppress the will of the people. This is now a planet of apes, boars and lions, and a zoological revolution is reversing and recreating the atrocities of the 20th century. As animal figures watch the film archives of our world, it feels as if Lumière has been transported into a film by Méliès or Willis H. O’Brien. We are all well aware that history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as a farce. The time has now come for this farce, in which “political language inhabits our dreams and consumes us”, to allow the possibility of a “graceful and tender insubordination” to emerge.

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Irradiated (2020)
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★ 5.2 6 ratings
潘礼德 actor: Rebecca Marder / 安德烈·维尔姆斯 …
other title: 辐射 / Irradiés …
A film about people who have survived the irradiation of war and recommended to those who believe they are immune to it.

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The Sea Wall (2008)
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★ 6.2 5 ratings
other title: 抵挡太平洋的堤坝 / Un barrage contre le Pacifique …
在法属殖民地炎热夏季里的稻田堤坝又一次被雨水冲毁,母亲(伊莎贝尔•于佩尔Isabelle Ann Huppert 饰)的土地盐碱化严重不能种植,一家人的拮据生活这使她忧心忡忡。一日她同儿子约瑟夫(Gaspard Ulliel 饰),女儿苏珊(Astrid Berges-Frisbey 饰)到镇上的酒馆喝酒,认识了来到此地的中国人诺先生。诺先生喜欢上了美丽的苏珊,在母亲和哥哥的眼里诺先生只是一个虚情假意自私自利的资本家,苏珊因此游移不定,不知道自己要的是什么。值此政府的发布命令对村庄里的田地进行限制回收,母亲写信给总督先生希望能够获得土地的永久使用权,回信却只有延长一年的答复。约瑟夫开始做起走私货物来改变生活...... 本片改编自玛格丽特•杜拉斯的小说。

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The Missing Picture (2013)
L'image manquante
★ 8.2 31 ratings
潘礼德 actor: 兰德尔·杜丝 / 让-巴蒂斯特·普山
other title: 残缺影像 / L'image manquante …
Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.