Peng Phan is a Cambodia

Cambodia

Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...

n film actress. She has been featured in three films by Rithy Panh

Rithy Panh

Rithy Panh is an internationally and critically acclaimed Cambodian documentary film director and screenwriter.The French-schooled director's films focus on the aftermath of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia...

: Rice People

Rice People

Rice People is a 1994 Cambodian drama film directed and co-written by Rithy Panh. Adapted from the 1966 novel Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan , by Malaysian author Shahnon Ahmad, which is set in the Malaysian state of Kedah, Rice People is the story of a rural family in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia,...

, One Evening After the War

One Evening After the War

One Evening After the War is a 1998 Cambodian drama film, directed and co-written by Rithy Panh...

and The Burnt Theatre

The Burnt Theatre

The Burnt Theatre, or Les Artistes du Théâtre Brûlé, is a 2005 French-Cambodian docudrama directed and co-written by Rithy Panh. 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 practise their art in the burned-out...

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In her feature film debut, Rice People, Phan portrayed Om, the mentally unstable wife of a farmer and the mother of seven daughters, all struggling during a single rice-planting season.

In 2005's The Burnt Theatre, she portrayed herself, or a character who was an actress named Peng Phan who suffered survivor guilt

Survivor guilt

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 and psychosomatic illness

Psychosomatic illness

Psychosomatic medicine is an interdisciplinary medical field studying the relationships of social, psychological, and behavioral factors on bodily processes and well-being in humans and animals...

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Filmography

• Rice People
  Rice People
  Rice People is a 1994 Cambodian drama film directed and co-written by Rithy Panh. Adapted from the 1966 novel Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan , by Malaysian author Shahnon Ahmad, which is set in the Malaysian state of Kedah, Rice People is the story of a rural family in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia,...
  
  (1994)
• Femme de passions (1995)
• One Evening After the War
  One Evening After the War
  One Evening After the War is a 1998 Cambodian drama film, directed and co-written by Rithy Panh...
  
  (1998)
• One Step on a Mine, It's All Over (1999)
• Newsman (2002)
• The Burnt Theatre
  The Burnt Theatre
  The Burnt Theatre, or Les Artistes du Théâtre Brûlé, is a 2005 French-Cambodian docudrama directed and co-written by Rithy Panh. 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 practise their art in the burned-out...
  
  (2005)

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