Catalogue des films de « Rithy Panh »

Meticulously, a man’s hands assemble a model house in which he places a saved treasure as in a shrine: a family photo. Thus begins a journey into pain. The screen is split into a triptych, giving rhythm to the pictures. Each tragedy is unique,...

Rithy Panh continues his search for a path to peace. When a thirteen-year-old child, who lost the greater part of his family under the Khmer Rouge, embarks on a search for their graves, whether on clay or on spiritual ground, what does he find...

Exile is an abandonment, a terrifying solitude. In exile, one experiences loss, suffering, erasure. But one can also recover loved ones. In the language of words, images, in dreaming which is not only childlike. Everything begins with exile and...

"La France est notre patrie" est l’histoire d’une rencontre manquée entre deux cultures, deux sensibilités, deux imaginaires. Une rencontre qui a débouché sur une colonisation non exempte de brutalité alors qu’elle aurait pu éviter les...

"There are so many pictures in the world that we can think we have seen them all. For many years, I have been looking for the missing picture. A photograph taken between 1975 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge when they ruled over Cambodia. On its own,...

Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge regime caused the death of some 1.8 million people, representing one-quarter of the population of Cambodia. Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, directed for four years the M13 prison before being appointed...

A face illuminated by red light... - Why don't you go back to the village now? - I don't want to... I'm ashamed. - No-one knows what has happened to you. If you like, I'll help you... Go back to the village. - No. I'm ashamed. No-one knows...

How is it possible to create today in a country Cambodia, where culture has been eradicated for two generations...? In an attempt to answer this question, Rithy Panh follows a group of five artists searching for a form of expression and a...

This is not just one more of film about the monuments of Angkor, their history of their architecture. This film is about the people who live there. An inside view, in the shadow of the temples and the great kapok trees, an inhabited shadow that...

For several years now, Cambodian society has been stired up by the possibility that those responsible for the Khmer Rouge genocide could be brought to trial. This is the context in which film-maker Rithy Panh has undertaken a film project based on...