LA FRANCE EST NOTRE PATRIE

Rithy Pahn

Rithy Panh (Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 1964), starting in 1975, was forced to work in labor camps by the Khmer Rouge. In 1979, he escaped to the refugee camp in Mairut, Thailand, and in 1980 moved to Paris, where he graduated from the IDHEC. As a director, he is best known for his documentaries about Cambodia, which include La terre des âmes errantes (1999), awarded at Cinéma du réel in Paris, and S 21, la machine de mort Khmère Rouge (2003), presented at Cannes and at Torino Film Festival. He has also directed fiction films, such as Rice People (1994) and Un soir après la guerre (1998), selected for Un certain regard at Cannes, and Un barrage contre le Pacifique, presented at the festivals in Toronto and Rome. In 2013 he won Un certain regard in Cannes with L’image manquante, then selected in Torino too.

FILMOGRAFIA

Site 2 (doc., 1989), Souleymane Cissé (doc., tv, 1990), Cambodge, entre guerre et paix (1992), Neak sre (Rice People, 1994), Bophana, une tragédie cambodgienne (doc., 1996), Un soir après la guerre (1997), La terre des âmes errantes (doc, 1999), Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s’entrouvre (tv, 2000), S 21, la machine de mort Khmère Rouge (doc., 2002), Les gens d’Angkor (doc., 2003), Les artistes du Théâtre Brûlé (doc., 2005), Le papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise (doc., 2007), Un barrage contre le Pacifique (2008), Gibier d’élevage (2011), L’image manquante (doc., 2013), La France est notre patrie (doc., 2014).