Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh will serve as the jury president at this year’s Locarno Film Festival. Panh will head the festival’s Concorso Internazionale jury, which hands out the top Pardo d’Oro ...
Incomprehensible narration vies with archival atrocities and diorama drama to suggest the first casualty of the apocalypse may be coherence. In one regard, “Everything Will Be OK” is as good as its ...
Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh turns his camera on his country’s legacy of genocide in “The Missing Picture.” Part essay, part documentary, the film recounts his struggle to survive the Khmer Rouge ...
The director of the Oscar-nominated 'The Missing Picture' turns his focus to the Bunong people's struggle to reconcile their traditional practices and the pressures of the modern world. Panh’s ...
“First They Killed My Mother” producer Rithy Panh is arguably the most influential Cambodian director in history. A survivor of the Khmer Rouge who escaped to Thailand in 1979, Panh found his footing ...
Cinema can "preserve history, influence mindsets, and provide a space for reflection and escape," says the Cambodian auteur and "chronicler of his country’s traumas and gradual social recovery." By ...
The dictatorial and brutal Khmer Rouge regime under the tyrant Pol Pot in the mid-to-late 70s in Cambodia and the genocide engineered by it of over 2 million civilians have been perennial ...
"We are so lucky to visit this country at a key moment of its history" Strand Releasing has unveiled the official trailer for Meeting with Pol Pot, a French drama made by acclaimed Cambodian filmmaker ...
Rithy Panh has dedicated the lion’s share of his career to interrogating the genocidal Khmer Rouge era in his native Cambodia, and it is no trivial obsession. Panh fled Phnom Penh when he was just 11, ...
Most of Cambodian director Rithy Panh’s family were killed in Khmer Rouge labor camps. He was lucky enough to get out and, after months in a Thai refugee camp, move to Paris where he eventually went ...
When Rithy Panh set out to make a movie on Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot last year, the celebrated Cambodian director faced a strange dilemma. The actors he chose to play the Communist dictator ...
Cambodian director Rithy Panh’s film The Missing Picture has been submitted for the 86th Academy Awards. The movie, which tells Panh’s autobiographical story of how his family members were killed ...