National Films 2017


Competition for Min Ko Naing Award

How about you?

Soe Wint Htet/ Short/ Myanmar / 2017 / 10 min

Everyone wants to live healthily. There are options of staying fit by exercises. But there are things that one can’t control such as excessive chemical in the foods that they eat. From fertilizers to decorations, people are exposed to all kind of chemicals in their daily food. Due to the unscrupulous food suppliers, weak law enforcement, lack of clear rules contributes to this problem. For the consumers, the availability of safe, healthy food is still out of reach.

Man who is shining like a star

Gar Gyi / Short/ Myanmar / 2017 /
15 min

Byawgyi is born disable and lives In Meikhtila. He lives with his adopted mother and helps out with her business. Even when a local teashop offers him a job, he refuses, preferring to help out his mother. One day, his mother falls ill, forcing Byawgyi to seek an employment as a security guard at a warehouse. One day, an incident happens at that warehouse and Byawgyi demonstrates that even the disable people can carry out certain duties just like any others.

Escape

Robert Win Htein /Short/ Myanmar / 2017/
19 min

Due to an unknown virus, people have turned into zombies and the town is plagued by troubles and communication black-outs. A man escapes from a horde of zombies. He only has a few drops of water. He finds a place to take shelter. In the shelter, he unexpectedly finds a kid who is very thirsty. The man decides to give the kid the last of water that he has on him. Then, zombies arrive and the man narrowly escapes thanks to the kid’s intervention. They run away and end up at a dead-end corner, with zombies in pursuit. They escape by climbing over the fence.

The strength

Robert Win Htein / Short/ Myanmar / 2017 / 3 min

A young man sees a girl who is standing in front of an ice-cream shop, looking dejected. When told by the employee not to block the shop entrance, she moves away. She has in her hand a handful of loose change. Taking a pity on her, the young man buys an ice-cream for her. She grabs the ice-cream without even saying thanks to him. She walks away and the man sees that she is feeding the ice-cream to another girl, a street-side vendor. The young man looks at that scene and buys more ice-cream. Together, they happily eat ice-cream together.

Where is my chance to enjoy the equality?

Thar Gyi ( Naypyitaw)/ Short/ 7 min

A veteran who lost one of his legs after stepping on a landmine now makes a living as a book seller at a bus stop. One day, he is shooed away at a wedding while selling book to a wedding attendant. Later, he takes a seat at a bunch next to someone, only to be treated like a repulsive creature. People chastise him when he shouts to advertise his books for sale. He is then disqualified for a security job. He then goes home and finds a book about human rights and human dignity.

Place

Hnaung Eain Thit / Short/ Myanmar / 2017 /
3 min

Just as the scattered garbage on the streets, some lives are spent on the streets. A portrait of a thought of a woman after witnessing such a scene.

Almost love

M.noe/ Short/ Myanmar / 2017 / 10 min

A story about a woman, her husband, her lover, and a hit man…

It happened one night

M.noe / Short/ Myanmar / 2017 / 16 min

A man and woman who have nothing in common except loneliness have a chance encounter in the atmospheric red lantern-adorned streets of Yangon’s China town during the Chinese New Year time.

The Window

Pyae Zaw Phyo / Short/ Myanmar / 2017 /
10 min

A window
A love
A feeling.

The School uniform

Shunn Lei Swee Yee / Short/ Myanmar / 2017 / 18 min

Sabai is delighted to be able to send her young daughter to school. But disaster strikes when she cannot afford to buy a school uniform. What will it cost this loving mother to get her little girl what she needs? This short drama was shot in and around Hlegu, a small agricultural township around 45km north-east of Yangon.

The rights for Maharmaya

Moore Thit Sett Htoon / Short/ Myanmar / 2017 /
3 min

Buddha never encouraged any form of discrimination whatsoever….

The Equilibrium

Shune Lei Thar, Myanmar Ayeyarwaddy / Short/ Myanmar / 2017 / 10 min

What are being affected by the way of our daily urban lifestyles?

Once upon a Dream

Shune Lei Thar / Short/ Myanmar /2017 / 10 min

About a boy who is seeking for a truth he got from a dream…

Beyond

Phyo Zayar Kyaw / Short / Myanmar / 2017 / 11 min

There will surely be only regret if one makes a self-centered decision.


Competition for Aung San Suu Kyi Award, Gender Equality Award and VOA Award


The Danu Land

Bo Thet Htun, Sein Linn / Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 / 30 min

Many ethnic races live within Myanmar where there is the world’s longest civil wars are raging. Many ethnic minorities want to manage the natural resources from their own region. That’s why they have been waging an armed struggle against the central government for decades. But Danu people have never taken up arms against the government. Yes, their precious natural resources prove to be disastrous to Danu people’s lives. This film is about the land confiscations going on in the land of Danu people.

Brave Wittmhon

Swam Yaung Ni / Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 / 20 min

A HIV-positive gay, her surroundings, and her deep-down inside feelings and her love.

Forever Temporary

Aung Kyaw Htwe / Documentary/ Myanmar / 2017 / 20 min

Among the mausoleums of the heroes of Myanmar’s history, there lies a mausoleum of someone whom history has forgotten, and who had witnessed the last days of the Myanmar monarchy. We won’t be able to change the past. But we can learn from the past to build a better future.

A girl in 10’x10’

Mai May Sakarwah, Yu Par Mo Mo, Mary/ Documentary / Myanmar /2017 / 29 min

A girl is abandoned by her birth parents. Her name is Ngu War Hlaing (Branch of Yellow Flowers). Although she is adopted by a loving woman, she does not get a chance to attend school. She is now 11 and her future is obscure and uncertain.

Wild flower from Chin Land

Soe San Htite/ Documentary/ Myanmar / 2017 / 27 min

The documentary will be a story of one divorced woman from Mindat. According to Chin custom, she has lived with her in-laws where she was subjected to work household chores while working to earn a living. Later she left her husband, took the youngest of her 3 sons and came back to live with her parents. Now she opens a small restaurant, develops new interest in politics and contested at 2015 election (but lost). Later she joins Chin National Front (the political wing of Chin National Army) and becomes one of the central committee members. The film will focus not only on challenges she faces as a divorce, a mother, social, financial and later in politics but also how she overcomes and working hard for her personal dream instead of traditional who sacrifice for the sake of her children.

Wish

Sai Kyaw Khaing/ Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 /6 min

Daily incidents encountered by Myanmar people regarding the human rights.

Hero of Truth

Nyein Nyein Aung / Documentary / Myanmar / 2017/
19 min

Shwe Nya Wah Monk has entered the monkhood since 9 years old and is now 52 years of age with 32 years in the monastic life. He entered politics in 1988 and has been detained for 6 months. Throughout the Socialist, Military, and quasi-civilian governments, he has bravely stood up for truth and has been banned from preaching and giving sermon by the government. That has also caused him to be banished from his long-term residence monastery. He has also spoken against the Patriotic Association (MaBaTha) and encouraged his pupils to take part in Saffron Revolution of 2007. To this day, He has stood on the side of NLD.

Donation

Pyin Nyar Zeya/ Documentary/ Myanmar / 2017 / 12 min

A monastery does not let the leftover food go to waste and redistribute it to the poor.

The music of the villager

Swam Yaung Ni / Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 / 13 min

A university tutor from the countryside who is pursuing his dream for a musical career.

Bog boy

Min Thiha / Documentary/ Myanmar / 2017 /24 min

A boy catches fish from the pond, to be sold back to the pilgrims to set them free. One summer day, the pond runs dry.

Dream in bronze Neck

Chit Moe Pio/ Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 / 15 min

The life experience, life styles and traditions of the bronze neck ring-clad Kayan ethnic tribe members who worked in Thailand and recently coming back to their homeland.

Zero Circle

Khin Thet Htar Latt / Documentry/ Myanmar / 2017 / 19 min

Unexpected turns of events while spending a day with street kids.

May I help you?

Yamin Oo, Kay Lie / Documentary/ Myanmar / 2017 / 26 min

This film documents the incidents of police harassment of Myanmar’s LGBT community members. It recalls the experiences of those harassed by the police in Yangon, Mandalay, and Myitkyina as well as the police response on such allegations.

Just a woman

Shin Daewee / Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 /
26 min

A political journey of a Shan Ni ethnic nurse named Hmwe Hmwe Khin. She has endured discriminations because she’s a woman as well as an ethnic minority from the countryside and some people did not think she’d be able to make it in a political arena. This film documents the life of Hmwe Hmwe Khin, who has now become a Minister of Ethnic Minority Affairs.

Lifeless

M Luu / Documentary /2017 /
6 min

A child possesses an opportunity that another child could only dream about. But that first child cannot make that opportunity into reality either, somehow depriving him of his rights.

Drug Shadow

Nang Seng Htay / Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 / 18 min

There are about 300,000 drug addicts in Myanmar, most of them in Kachin and Shan State. This short documentary portrays one young Shan woman’s bid to create a life for herself away from the drug trade in Kachin.

Through Thick and Thin

Win Thu Myo/ Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 / 17 min

U Myint Swe and Daw Htay live with their patchwork family in a tiny hut in Yangon’s Sought Dagon Myo Thit district surrounded by the huge pile of garbage they collect as municipal workers. In between sorting and recycling in order to scrape together a merge living they ponder the reasons why their relationship has endured all manner of hardships.

The Washu family

Lin Hnin Aye / Documentary/ Myanmar / 2017 / 25 min

The Washu family is Lisu. This gentle portrait describes thrie way of life in a remote village one hour north of Putao in Kachin, where things have changed very little in the last century.

Listen

Min Min Hein / Documentary/ Myanmar/ 2017 / 13 min

Listen" is a documentary portrait of revolutionary artist Chaw Ei Then. Exiled from her homeland of Myanmar, she uses visually striking and emotionally unsettling performance art and artwork as a means of dissent, both to express her political views and to give voice to her victimized experience and inner struggles.

The Journey of the Woman Journalist

Yu Par Mo Mo, Soe San Htike / Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 /
24 min

From social media to the prints, there are now great demands for the news. Women journalists are now working alongside the men. For a female journalist who is covering the human rights issues, she herself is a subject to violation of some of her rights. Being a woman, she faces difficulties in attain a leadership position as well as other challenges in her social, personal lives.

Deep inside her

Kaung Myat Thu Kyaw / Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 / 20 min

When the effort is the same, but the result is not…

Pyone Pyone

Lei Lei Aye / Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 / 20 min

About a lady named Ms. Pyone (Smile) who is the head of a Myanmar traditional pottery workshop.

A4

Khin Suu Kyi, Mai Ah Nway (Ta’aung Chitthu) / Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 / 26 min

About a refugee woman running away from her war torn region.

She

Kyal Yi Linn Six
/ Documentry / Myanmar / 2017 / 30min

A Buddhist nun, a Christian nun, and a muslin woman. Their lives, their experiences, and the challenges that they face.

Non Fossils

Moore Thit Sett Htoon / Documentry / Myanmar / 2017 / 23 min

Water of the Lake,In itself serene and calm.But when something stirs and shakes Ripples and waves awaken For a moment not so great,Brief as a click of the tongue.And then…The water is once again calm Untile up from the lake.



Competition for Hantharwady U Win Tin Award


The Danu Land

Bo Thet Htun / Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 / 30 min

Many ethnic races live within Myanmar where there is the world’s longest civil wars are raging. Many ethnic minorities want to manage the natural resources from their own region. That’s why they have been waging an armed struggle against the central government for decades. But Danu people have never taken up arms against the government. Yes, their precious natural resources prove to be disastrous to Danu people’s lives. This film is about the land confiscations going on in the land of Danu people.

Brave Wittmhon

Swam Yaung Ni/ Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 / 20 min

A HIV-positive gay, her surroundings, and her deep-down inside feelings and her love.

Forever Temporary

Aung Kyaw Htwe / Documentary/ Myanmar / 2017 / 20 min

Among the mausoleums of the heroes of Myanmar’s history, there lies a mausoleum of someone whom history has forgotten, and who had witnessed the last days of the Myanmar monarchy. We won’t be able to change the past. But we can learn from the past to build a better future.

A girl in 10’x10’

Mai May Sakarwah, Yu Par Mo Mo, Mary/ Documentary / Myanmar /2017 / 29 min

A girl is abandoned by her birth parents. Her name is Ngu War Hlaing (Branch of Yellow Flowers). Although she is adopted by a loving woman, she does not get a chance to attend school. She is now 11 and her future is obscure and uncertain.

Wild flower from Chin Land

Soe San Htike/ Documentary/ Myanmar / 2017 / 27 min

The documentary will be a story of one divorced woman from Mindat. According to Chin custom, she has lived with her in-laws where she was subjected to work household chores while working to earn a living. Later she left her husband, took the youngest of her 3 sons and came back to live with her parents. Now she opens a small restaurant, develops new interest in politics and contested at 2015 election (but lost). Later she joins Chin National Front (the political wing of Chin National Army) and becomes one of the central committee members. The film will focus not only on challenges she faces as a divorce, a mother, social, financial and later in politics but also how she overcomes and working hard for her personal dream instead of traditional who sacrifice for the sake of her children.

Wish

Sai Kyaw Khaing/ Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 /6 min

Daily incidents encountered by Myanmar people regarding the human rights.

Hero of Truth

Nyein Nyein Aung / Documentary / Myanmar / 2017/
19 min

Shwe Nya Wah Monk has entered the monkhood since 9 years old and is now 52 years of age with 32 years in the monastic life. He entered politics in 1988 and has been detained for 6 months. Throughout the Socialist, Military, and quasi-civilian governments, he has bravely stood up for truth and has been banned from preaching and giving sermon by the government. That has also caused him to be banished from his long-term residence monastery. He has also spoken against the Patriotic Association (MaBaTha) and encouraged his pupils to take part in Saffron Revolution of 2007. To this day, He has stood on the side of NLD.

Donation

Pyin Nyar Zeya/ Documentary/ Myanmar / 2017 / 12 min

A monastery does not let the leftover food go to waste and redistribute it to the poor.

The music of the villager

Swam Yaung Ni / Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 / 13 min

A university tutor from the countryside who is pursuing his dream for a musical career.

Bog boy

Min Thiha / Documentary/ Myanmar / 2017 /24 min

A boy catches fish from the pond, to be sold back to the pilgrims to set them free. One summer day, the pond runs dry.

Dream in bronze Neck

Chit Moe Pio / Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 / 15 min

The life experience, life styles and traditions of the bronze neck ring-clad Kayan ethnic tribe members who worked in Thailand and recently coming back to their homeland.

Zero Circle

Khin Thet Htar Latt / Documentry/ Myanmar / 2017 / 19 min

Unexpected turns of events while spending a day with street kids.

May I help you?

Yamin Oo, Kay Lie / Documentary/ Myanmar / 2017 / 26 min

This film documents the incidents of police harassment of Myanmar’s LGBT community members. It recalls the experiences of those harassed by the police in Yangon, Mandalay, and Myitkyina as well as the police response on such allegations.

Just a woman

Shin Daewee / Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 /
26 min

A political journey of a Shan Ni ethnic nurse named Hmwe Hmwe Khin. She has endured discriminations because she’s a woman as well as an ethnic minority from the countryside and some people did not think she’d be able to make it in a political arena. This film documents the life of Hmwe Hmwe Khin, who has now become a Minister of Ethnic Minority Affairs.

Lifeless

M Luu / Documentary /2017 /
6 min

A child possesses an opportunity that another child could only dream about. But that first child cannot make that opportunity into reality either, somehow depriving him of his rights.

Drug Shadow

Nang Seng Htay / Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 / 18 min

There are about 300,000 drug addicts in Myanmar, most of them in Kachin and Shan State. This short documentary portrays one young Shan woman’s bid to create a life for herself away from the drug trade in Kachin.

Through Thick and Thin

Win Thu Myo/ Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 / 17 min

U Myint Swe and Daw Htay live with their patchwork family in a tiny hut in Yangon’s Sought Dagon Myo Thit district surrounded by the huge pile of garbage they collect as municipal workers. In between sorting and recycling in order to scrape together a merge living they ponder the reasons why their relationship has endured all manner of hardships.

The Washu family

Lin Hnin Aye / Documentary/ Myanmar / 2017 / 25 min

The Washu family is Lisu. This gentle portrait describes thrie way of life in a remote village one hour north of Putao in Kachin, where things have changed very little in the last century.

Listen

Min Min Htein / Documentary/ Myanmar/ 2017 / 13 min

Listen" is a documentary portrait of revolutionary artist Chaw Ei Then. Exiled from her homeland of Myanmar, she uses visually striking and emotionally unsettling performance art and artwork as a means of dissent, both to express her political views and to give voice to her victimized experience and inner struggles.

The Journey of the Woman Journalist

Yu Par Mo Mo, Soe San Htike / Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 /
24 min

From social media to the prints, there are now great demands for the news. Women journalists are now working alongside the men. For a female journalist who is covering the human rights issues, she herself is a subject to violation of some of her rights. Being a woman, she faces difficulties in attain a leadership position as well as other challenges in her social, personal lives.

Deep inside her

Kaung Myat Thu Kyaw / Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 / 20 min

When the effort is the same, but the result is not…

Pyone Pyone

Lei Lei Aye / Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 / 20 min

About a lady named Ms. Pyone (Smile) who is the head of a Myanmar traditional pottery workshop.

A4

Khin Suu Kyi, Mai Ah Nway (Ta’aung Chitthu) / Documentary / Myanmar / 2017 / 26 min

About a refugee woman running away from her war torn region.

Once upon a Dream

Shune Lei Thar / Short/ Myanmar /2017 / 10 min

About a boy who is seeking for a truth he got from a dream…

She

Kyal Yi Linn Six
/ Documentry / Myanmar / 2017 / 30min

A Buddhist nun, a Christian nun, and a muslin woman. Their lives, their experiences, and the challenges that they face.

Non Fossils

Moore Thit Sett Htoon / Documentry / Myanmar / 2017 / 23 min

Water of the Lake,In itself serene and calm.But when something stirs and shakes Ripples and waves awaken For a moment not so great,Brief as a click of the tongue.And then…The water is once again calm Untile up from the lake.

How about you?

Soe Wint Htet/ Short/ Myanmar / 2017 / 10 min

Everyone wants to live healthily. There are options of staying fit by exercises. But there are things that one can’t control such as excessive chemical in the foods that they eat. From fertilizers to decorations, people are exposed to all kind of chemicals in their daily food. Due to the unscrupulous food suppliers, weak law enforcement, lack of clear rules contributes to this problem. For the consumers, the availability of safe, healthy food is still out of reach.

Man who is shining like a star

Gar Gyi / Short/ Myanmar / 2017 /
15 min

Byawgyi is born disable and lives In Meikhtila. He lives with his adopted mother and helps out with her business. Even when a local teashop offers him a job, he refuses, preferring to help out his mother. One day, his mother falls ill, forcing Byawgyi to seek an employment as a security guard at a warehouse. One day, an incident happens at that warehouse and Byawgyi demonstrates that even the disable people can carry out certain duties just like any others.

Escape

Robert Win Htein /Short/ Myanmar / 2017/
19 min

Due to an unknown virus, people have turned into zombies and the town is plagued by troubles and communication black-outs. A man escapes from a horde of zombies. He only has a few drops of water. He finds a place to take shelter. In the shelter, he unexpectedly finds a kid who is very thirsty. The man decides to give the kid the last of water that he has on him. Then, zombies arrive and the man narrowly escapes thanks to the kid’s intervention. They run away and end up at a dead-end corner, with zombies in pursuit. They escape by climbing over the fence.

The strength

Robert Win Htein / Short/ Myanmar / 2017 / 3 min

A young man sees a girl who is standing in front of an ice-cream shop, looking dejected. When told by the employee not to block the shop entrance, she moves away. She has in her hand a handful of loose change. Taking a pity on her, the young man buys an ice-cream for her. She grabs the ice-cream without even saying thanks to him. She walks away and the man sees that she is feeding the ice-cream to another girl, a street-side vendor. The young man looks at that scene and buys more ice-cream. Together, they happily eat ice-cream together.

Where is my chance to enjoy the equality?

Thar Gyi ( Naypyitaw)/ Short/ 7 min

A veteran who lost one of his legs after stepping on a landmine now makes a living as a book seller at a bus stop. One day, he is shooed away at a wedding while selling book to a wedding attendant. Later, he takes a seat at a bunch next to someone, only to be treated like a repulsive creature. People chastise him when he shouts to advertise his books for sale. He is then disqualified for a security job. He then goes home and finds a book about human rights and human dignity.

Place

Hnaung Eain Thit / Short/ Myanmar / 2017 /
3 min

Just as the scattered garbage on the streets, some lives are spent on the streets. A portrait of a thought of a woman after witnessing such a scene.

Almost love

M.noe/ Short/ Myanmar / 2017 / 10 min

A story about a woman, her husband, her lover, and a hit man…

It happened one night

M.noe / Short/ Myanmar / 2017 / 16 min

A man and woman who have nothing in common except loneliness have a chance encounter in the atmospheric red lantern-adorned streets of Yangon’s China town during the Chinese New Year time.

The Window

Pyae Zaw Phyo / Short/ Myanmar / 2017 /
10 min

A window
A love
A feeling.

The School uniform

Shunn Lei Swee Yee / Short/ Myanmar / 2017 / 18 min

Sabai is delighted to be able to send her young daughter to school. But disaster strikes when she cannot afford to buy a school uniform. What will it cost this loving mother to get her little girl what she needs? This short drama was shot in and around Hlegu, a small agricultural township around 45km north-east of Yangon.

The rights for Maharmaya

Moore Thit Sett Htoon / Short/ Myanmar / 2017 /
3 min

Buddha never encouraged any form of discrimination whatsoever….

The Equilibrium

Shune Lei Thar, Myanmar Ayeyarwaddy / Short/ Myanmar / 2017 / 10 min

What are being affected by the way of our daily urban lifestyles?

Beyond

Phyo Zayar Kyaw / Short / Myanmar / 2017 / 11 min

There will surely be only regret if one makes a self-centered decision.

The Cloud

Kam Khang Sing / Short/ Myanmar / 2017 / 57 min

In a small, remote mountain town, two lovers let their passion cloud their better judgments, ending in an expected pregnancy. The young man is a theological student training to become a Christina pastor. In order to make his future as a pastor less complicated, they decide to have an abortion. The film is in Chin ethnic language.

Psycho Zero

Team Psycho Zero / Short/ Myanmar / 2017 / 85 min

An “omnibus film” is a subgenre of films consisting of several different short films, often tied together by only a single theme, premise, or brief interlocking event. Sometimes each one is directed by a different director.

Omnibus film titled “Psycho Zero” features the works of 14 directors with 14 unique takes on psychological problems / conditions.


Non Competition For Panorama


Holi

Mary, Mai May Sakarwah / Documentry / Myanmar / 2017 / 23 min

About the Hindu Holi Festival…

Just in time

Okkar/ Documentry/ Myanmar / 2017 / 22 min

Myanmar has been producing films since 1918. Now 90% of the original film prints have been degraded or disappeared. What remain also face the threat of degradation. Luckily, today’s technology enables the digital restoration in the original’s celluloid quality. Just in time, indeed.

Restart

Saw Reagan / Documentry / Myanmar / 2017 / 23 min

Myanmar migrant workers face human trafficking when they are going to work inside and outside the country. One of the women is struggling for her life and why she become one of the activists for anti-human trafficking.

Spirit

Ko Jet/ Documentry/ Myanmar / 2017 / 24 min

A Spiritual believe from the country side.

Four Strings

Moore Thit Sett Htoon / Documentry / Myanmar / 2017 / 23 min

Four Strings Combined with four strings,Walking on a single path,Carrying a burden called history…..

Sixteen Strings

Moore Thit Sett Htoon/ Documentry/ Myanmar / 2017 / 24 min

The sixteen strings That tie and bind Myanmar togetherWith their melodies.

Diramore

Yu Par Mo Mo, Nay Chi Myat Noe Wint/ Documentry / Myanmar / 2017 / 25 min

A man who alive with music.

The Bulb

Yu Par Mo Mo / Short/ Myanmar / 2017 / 5 min

The excess vs the need…

Shaky Little Hands

Nay Chi Myat Noe Wint / Short / Myanmar / 2017 / 8 min

A timid and frightened pianist girl, a guy who gives her encouragement and their encounter at a recital.

Mom and her mom

Mai May Sakarwah / Short/ Myanmar / 2017 / 6 min

A daughter who receives an unconditional love from her mother and an ailing mother who is being neglected by her daughter.

His toy

Htut Ye Kyaw / Short / Myanmar / 2017 / 6 min

A school kid needs time to play and should not be preoccupied only in schoolworks. Otherwise, that child’s ability to do critical thinking can be adversely affected in the future.

Cahier Africain

Heidi Specogna / Documentary / Switzerland, Germany / 2016 / 119 min

It all started with a school exercise book. Its pages were checkered with the testimonies of 300 Central African women, girls and men. They reveal what Congolese mercenaries did to them. On their own initiative they gathered together their testimonies to record the crimes committed against them. The film is a long-term observation that begins accompanying its protagonists in 2008. But while they try to master their difficult daily lives with confidence – and while, in The Hague, the legal prosecution of crimes committed during the last war is still in progress – the next war breaks out.

8 Women for 6 Questions

Francesca Baronio / Documentary / 13 min

8 Women for 6 questions is a glimpse of Burmese society that explores different perceptions of gender inequality from eight prominent Burmese women: a writer (Ju), a singer (Phu Phu Kyaw Thein), a gender activist (May Sabe Phyu), a Buddhist nun (Molini), a Member of Parliament (Phu Phu Thin NLD), an orphanage founder (Amarylla Myatt), a fashion designer (Mogok Pauk Pauk), and a business woman (Win Win Thin). Responding to questions about the gender situation in Myanmar, these women speak about their memories growing up as girls in Myanmar, their current realities, and their dreams for the future.

Francesca Baronio has more than 20 years of experience in journalism, working as a foreign correspondent from Africa (Kenya), Europe (Brussels, Copenhagen and Rome), and USA (Washington DC). Francesca now lives in Myanmar.


SPECIAL SCREENING


The Cloud

Kam Khang Sing / Feature film / Myanmar / 2017 / 57 min

In a small, remote mountain town, two lovers let their passion cloud their better judgments, ending in an expected pregnancy.The young man is a theological student training to become a Christina pastor. In order to make his future as a pastor less complicated, they decide to have an abortion. The film is in Chin ethnic language.

Psycho Zero

Team Psycho Zero / Short/ Myanmar / 2017 / 58 min

An “omnibus film” is a subgenre of films consisting of several different short films, often tied together by only a single theme, premise, or brief interlocking event. Sometimes each one is directed by a different director.

Omnibus film titled “Psycho Zero” features the works of 14 directors with 14 unique takes on psychological problems / conditions.