Rice People

Rice People
The DVD cover.
Directed by	Rithy Panh
Screenplay by	Ève Deboise Rithy Panh
Based on	No Harvest But a Thorn by Shahnon Ahmad
Produced by	Jacques Bidou Pierre-Alain Meier
Starring	Peng Phan Mom Soth Chhim Naline
Cinematography	Jacques Bouquin
Edited by	Andrée Davanture Marie-Christine Rougerie
Music by	Jean-Claude Brisson Marc Marder
Distributed by	Facets Video
Release date	May 1994 (1994-05) (France)
Running time	125 minutes
Country	Cambodia
Language	Khmer

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Rice People (Khmer: អ្នកស្រែ, romanized: 'nâk Srê [neak srae]) is a 1994 Cambodian drama film directed and co-written by Rithy Panh. Adapted from the 1966 novel Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan (No Harvest But a Thorn), 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, struggling to bring in a single season's rice crop. It was filmed in the Cambodian village of Kamreang, in the Kien Svay and Boeung Thom areas of Kandal Province near Phnom Penh, on the banks of the Mekong River. The cast features both professional and non-professional actors.

The film premiered in the main competition at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and was submitted to the 67th Academy Awards, the first time a Cambodian film had been submitted as a possible nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.^[1]