Producer
Бизнесмен Ван Синь Хун страдает бессонницей. Гадалка советует молодому человеку, чей автомобиль и выпуклый кошелек говорят о том, что дела у него идут неплохо: провести 14 дней в буддистском монастыре, жить как монах и есть по одному яблоку в день. Сделать это в наши дни возможно в Бирме. Ван Синь Хун следует совету, прибывает в сельский монастырь, бреется наголо и надевает красную одежду, в которой немедленно становится авторитетом.
Screenplay
Бизнесмен Ван Синь Хун страдает бессонницей. Гадалка советует молодому человеку, чей автомобиль и выпуклый кошелек говорят о том, что дела у него идут неплохо: провести 14 дней в буддистском монастыре, жить как монах и есть по одному яблоку в день. Сделать это в наши дни возможно в Бирме. Ван Синь Хун следует совету, прибывает в сельский монастырь, бреется наголо и надевает красную одежду, в которой немедленно становится авторитетом.
Editor
Бизнесмен Ван Синь Хун страдает бессонницей. Гадалка советует молодому человеку, чей автомобиль и выпуклый кошелек говорят о том, что дела у него идут неплохо: провести 14 дней в буддистском монастыре, жить как монах и есть по одному яблоку в день. Сделать это в наши дни возможно в Бирме. Ван Синь Хун следует совету, прибывает в сельский монастырь, бреется наголо и надевает красную одежду, в которой немедленно становится авторитетом.
Editor
Midi Z visits his oncle who works as a jade miner.
Producer
Midi Z visits his oncle who works as a jade miner.
Editor
A fascinating documentary, shot in the mountainous north of Burma. No filmmaker is welcome there, because, against the background of a civil war, the jade miners enter the deserted mines illegally. With the aid of filming locals, however, Midi Z was able to compile this portrait. Getting rich quick turns out to be hard and risky work Jade has always been a valuable commodity in Asia. In the mountains in the north of Burma there are valuable deposits of jade. The area forms part of Kachin State, inhabited by many ethnic groups which found themselves embroiled in the Civil War in 2010 with the Burmese government. Jade mining was halted because of the conflict. Thousands of workers, however, went to the war zone in order to dig for illegal jade. It turned the region into a no-go area and the filmmaker Midi Z, who had so far made feature films in Burma, saw no opportunity to go and film there. It was far too dangerous. © iffr.com
Editor
A young farmer and his father are barely able to survive on their meagre corn harvest and so they make their way down from the mountains to the village to borrow money from their relatives working in jade mines or on opium plantations. But missing paperwork, deceit and corruption have left them impoverished too. Finally, the father pawns his cow for a moped so that his son can earn a living as a taxi driver. His first customer is Sanmei, who has returned to Myanmar to bury her grandfather. She decides not to go back to China and to get out of an arranged marriage in order to begin a new life with her son in her old country. When Sanmei accepts a job as a drug runner she persuades the young farmer to be her driver.
Editor
Simple, yet complex. A man (favourite actor Wang Shin-hong) meets a woman (standard actor Wu Ke-xi) on a moored ship, a sort of floating palace decorated like a Buddhist temple. The woman or her spirit struggles with her memories and the man takes on the form of a Buddhist monk in his next life. Complex and yet simple. The man, the woman and the camera move gracefully 'dancing' through the space. Only the thought of escape.
Editor
After decades of military rule, Burma has finally held its first presidential election. Many Burmese living abroad believe that peace and prosperity will soon soon follow, including Wang Xing-Hong who is living as an immigrant laborer in Taiwan and saves his money so he can return home. When Xing-hong arrives, he feels like a stranger in a foreign land but is determined to stay and make his life in Burma.
Director
An independent filmmaker and a social activist, Wen tries to stop a politician’s car. The car dashes ahead, and he gets stuck on the bonnet. He wants to die of protesting, but when another guy jumps onto the bonnet, he starts to think about how to help both parties survive.
