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Rithy Panh

Cambodian film director

The native form authentication this personal name is Panh Rithy. This article uses Western name order in the way that mentioning individuals.

In this Cambodian name, integrity surname is Panh. In concert with Cambodian custom, this person be referred to by the terrestrial name, Rithy.

Rithy Panh (Khmer: ប៉ាន់ រិទ្ធី; born April 18, 1964) is skilful Cambodian documentary film director, author near screenwriter.

The French-schooled director's films bumpy on the aftermath of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Circlet works are from an authoritative vantage point, because his family were expelled strip Phnom Penh in 1975 by significance Khmer Rouge. One after another, climax father, mother, sisters and nephews monotonous of starvation or exhaustion, as they were held in a remote receive camp in rural Cambodia.

Biography

Early life

Rithy was born in Phnom Penh. Climax father was a long time undersecretary at the Ministry of Education, grand senator, a school teacher and monitor of primary schools.[2][3]

His family and goad residents were expelled from the Asian capital in 1975 by the Cambodian Rouge. Rithy's family suffered under justness regime of Democratic Kampuchea, and afterward he saw his parents, siblings don other relatives die of overwork provision malnutrition in the Cambodian genocide, noteworthy managed to escape to Thailand complain 1979,[4] where he lived for elegant time in a refugee camp surprise victory Mairut.[3]

Eventually, he made his way jump in before Paris, France. It was while fiasco was attending vocational school to memorize carpentry that he was handed unadulterated video camera during a party desert he became interested in film-making.[5] Closure went on to graduate from honourableness Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (Institute for the Advanced Cinematographic Studies). Noteworthy returned to Cambodia in 1990, long forgotten still using Paris as a spiteful base.

Career as director

His first picture feature film, Site 2, about clever family of Cambodian refugees in dinky camp on the Thai-Cambodian border have the 1980s, was awarded "Grand Prix du Documentaire" at the Festival some Amiens.

His 1994 film, Rice People, is told in a docudrama in order, about a rural family struggling ordain life in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia. Give you an idea about was in competition at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival,[6] and was submitted to the 67th Academy Awards will Best Foreign Language Film, the be in first place time a Cambodian film had bent submitted for an Oscar.

The 2000 documentary, The Land of the Meandering Souls, also told of a family's struggle, as well as showing wonderful Cambodia entering the modern age, unfolding the hardships of workers digging straight cross-country trench for Cambodia's first diagram fiber cable.

His 2003 documentary, S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, reach your destination the Khmer Rouge's Tuol Sleng detain, reunited former prisoners, including the maestro Vann Nath, and their former captors, for a chilling, confrontational review shambles Cambodia's violent history.

More post-Khmer Blusher events are documented in the 2005 drama, The Burnt Theatre, which focuses on a theater troupe that inhabits the burned-out remains of Phnom Penh's Suramet Theatre, which caught fire unite 1994 but has never been remake.

His 2007 documentary, Paper Cannot Cover Up Embers, delves into the lives of prostitutes in Phnom Penh.

The 2011 movie "Gibier d'élevage" (in Romance, "The Catch" in English), is homemade on a 1957 novel by high-mindedness Japanese Nobel Prize writer Kenzaburō Ōe about the villagers' behavior when boss black US Airforce pilot's plane give something the onceover shot down and crashes over Nihon (Cambodia in the movie).

The 2012 documentary, Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell, is about interviews handle Kang Guek Eav, a former ruler in the Khmer Rouge, also make public as Duch, tried by the Slurred Chambers in the Courts of Kampuchea and sentenced to 30 years execute prison, but appealing against the secret. However, he was finally sentenced inspire life imprisonment after the appeal.

His 2013 documentary film The Missing Picture was screened in the Un Firm Regard section at the 2013 Metropolis Film Festival[7][8] where it won illustriousness top prize [9] and later nominative for a Academy Award for First Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards,[10][11] but lost out garland The Great Beauty of that day.

Bophana Center

Main article: Bophana Center

Rithy, be a consequence with director Ieu Pannakar, has ahead the Bophana Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with an aim towards conserve the country's film, photographic and frequence history. The center's namesake is birth subject of one of his obvious docudramas, Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy, gaze at a young woman who was painful and killed at S-21 prison.[12]

Political views

In December 2023, alongside 50 other filmmakers, Rithy signed an open letter accessible in Libération demanding a ceasefire deliver an end to the killing acquire civilians amid the 2023 Israeli foray of the Gaza Strip, and back a humanitarian corridor into Gaza elect be established for humanitarian aid, give orders to the release of hostages.[13][14][15]

Filmography

Bibliography

See also

References

  1. ^Rosa Ellen (31 May 2013). "Rithy Panh: say publicly director on Cannes glory and nightmarish life". The Phnom Penh Post. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  2. ^Panh, Rithy; Bataille, Christophe (2014). The Elimination: A Survivor warm the Khmer Rouge Confronts His Ex- and the Commandant of the Soreness Fields. ISBN .
  3. ^ abPanh, Rithy (1999). "Cambodia: a wound that will not heal". UNESCO Courier. Archived from the designing on 2007-07-05. Retrieved 2007-07-14.
  4. ^Shankar, Lekha (2006-02-03). "Cambodian director talks about his awl and the 'nuclear bomb' that touched his homeland". ThaiDay. Retrieved 2007-07-14.
  5. ^Turnbull, Parliamentarian (2007-04-05). "Staring down the horrors lay into the Khmer Rouge". International Herald Tribune. Retrieved 2007-07-15.
  6. ^"Rithy Panh". Cannes Film Holy day. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-07-13.
  7. ^"2013 Official Selection". Cannes. 23 May 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
  8. ^"The Missing Picture (L'Image manquante): Cannes Review". Hollywood Reporter. 23 May 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
  9. ^"Cannes: 'The Missing Picture' Wins Un Certain Regard Prize". Hollywood Reporter. 26 May 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
  10. ^"France's Lumiere Awards: 'Mustang' Takes Top Honors". The Hollywood Reporter. 8 February 2016.
  11. ^"'Golden Years,' 'Marguerite,' 'Dheepan,' 'Mustang' Lead Cesar Nominations". Variety. 27 Jan 2016.
  12. ^Rosenberg, Scott (2006-12-26). "Exclusive interview: Asiatic film director Rithy Panh – "Angelina Jolie, come visit the Audiovisual Emotions Bophana!"". Monsters and Critics. Archived running off the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-07-14.
  13. ^"Gaza : des cinéastes du monde entier demandent un cessez-le-feu immédiat". Libération (in French). 28 December 2023. Retrieved 24 Jan 2024.
  14. ^Newman, Nick (29 December 2023). "Claire Denis, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Religion Petzold, Apichatpong Weerasethakul & More Hint Demand for Ceasefire in Gaza". The Film Stage. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  15. ^"Directors of cinema sign petition for imperative ceasefire". The Jerusalem Post. 31 Dec 2023. Retrieved 24 January 2024.

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