Kanopy (Firm)
Language
Burmese
Description
More than 20,000 people are reported dead, air strikes are hitting towns and villages, artillery is pummelling positions of armed resistance – but this is not Ukraine, this is the world’s forgotten civil war, where thousands of twenty-somethings are risking death to fight against a military coup that has removed elected government and stolen what they see as their future.
2) Sittwe
Language
Burmese
Description
Banned in Burma (Myanmar), Sittwe is a story about two teenagers from opposing sides of deadly religious and ethnic conflict. The film gives voice to the youth in a deeply divided society, to create space for dialogue about reconciliation. Phyu Phyu Than is a Rohingya Muslim girl and Aung San Myint is a Buddhist boy. Both saw their homes burned down during communal violence in 2012. Five years later, Phyu Phyu Than is languishing in an apartheid style...
Language
Burmese
Description
“Buddhism and nat worship are like mangoes and bananas” Whether contending with a deceitful daughter-in-law, forecasting financial prospects for a tea shop, or freeing a husband from government detainment, Friends in High Places reveals the central role of nats and spirit mediums in alleviating the day to day burdens of modern Burmese life. “Leprosy isnt as contagious as peoples problems,” notes one medium, “my clients bring their worries...