Headfirst Editor's Pick
"Sell out warning! Myanmar wants you to know it still exists. Western news outlets quickly forgot about the military coup in 2021, so now the anonymous Myanmar Film Collective wants to make a status update. Behind that global silence is the violence of suppression - telecoms blackouts, jailed journalists, brutality for noncompliance. All weaved into a raw, emotional documentary cry for help, awareness and solidarity that the junta don’t want you to see."
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A event held at The Cube on Wednesday 1st March. The event starts at 19:00.
Myanmar Diaries, dirs. The Myanmar Film Collective, Myanmar 2022, 70 min., Burmese with English subtitles cert:18
This is a fundraiser for Burmese good causes, tickets are a minimum of £5, if you wish to support the causes please pay more.
Myanmar diaries is a film about life under the regime of terror in Myanmar in the aftermath of the military coup of February 1st 2021, told through personal stories by a group of anonymous young Burmese filmmakers (the Myanmar Film Collective).
Myanmar Diaries is built up of short films by ten young anonymous Burmese filmmakers, combined with emotionally harrowing citizen journalism documenting the junta’s brutality, as well as the courageous resistance to it.
The film shows how Myanmar goes from the miliary coup to nation-wide protests and civil disobedience, to barbaric repression where thousands of peaceful protesters are imprisoned and murdered, to a growing popular armed revolt against this monstrous military junta.
Moving organically back and forth between documentary and fiction, the film is a seamless whole in which the filmmakers find innovative creative ways to keep the protagonists anonymous.
An extremely urgent film in a time when Myanmar has almost disappeared from the news headlines around the world.
https://myanmardiaries.com/
There will Burmese street food for sale to raise money for good causes in Myanmar and the film will be followed by a Q & A.
AAPP (Burma) estimate that to date 2,716 have been killed, 17,104 arrested and 13,360 still detained.
https://aappb.org/
For more information and to post messages and pictures of support visit: https://www.facebook.com/groups/449747049673505
Entry requirements:
This is a fundraiser for Burmese good causes, tickets are a minimum of £5, if you wish to support the causes please pay more.
Myanmar diaries is a film about life under the regime of terror in Myanmar in the aftermath of the military coup of February 1st 2021, told through personal stories by a group of anonymous young Burmese filmmakers (the Myanmar Film Collective).
Myanmar Diaries is built up of short films by ten young anonymous Burmese filmmakers, combined with emotionally harrowing citizen journalism documenting the junta’s brutality, as well as the courageous resistance to it.
The film shows how Myanmar goes from the miliary coup to nation-wide protests and civil disobedience, to barbaric repression where thousands of peaceful protesters are imprisoned and murdered, to a growing popular armed revolt against this monstrous military junta.
Moving organically back and forth between documentary and fiction, the film is a seamless whole in which the filmmakers find innovative creative ways to keep the protagonists anonymous.
An extremely urgent film in a time when Myanmar has almost disappeared from the news headlines around the world.
https://myanmardiaries.com/
There will Burmese street food for sale to raise money for good causes in Myanmar and the film will be followed by a Q & A.
AAPP (Burma) estimate that to date 2,716 have been killed, 17,104 arrested and 13,360 still detained.
https://aappb.org/
For more information and to post messages and pictures of support visit: https://www.facebook.com/groups/449747049673505
Entry requirements:
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