Synopsis
A multi-storey housing block is filled with stories, from a street hawker struggling to fix his TV to a lonely girl who longs for a playmate; from one young man hiding his sexuality to another who simply wants to visit his girlfriend. As frustration builds in a young woman's overcrowded household, her heartfelt cry adds to the cacophony of lives lived in this little piece of the city.
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Credits
A film by:
Aung Htet Myet
May Myat Noe Aye
Moe Kyaw Thu
Seint Yamone Htoo
Shin Thandar
Editor: Mi Mi Lwin
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Technical Details
Duration: 19‘37‘‘
16:9 Anamorphic
System: PAL
English Subtitles
2020
Copyright
Yangon Film School
Filmmaker's Biographies 1 | 5
Aung Htet Myet
Aung Htet Myet is from Yangon (born in 1996). Having completed a degree in Information Technology and English at Dagon University, he began his career as a graphic designer before discovering his enthusiasm for film and enrolling at YFS in 2018. He recorded the sound on Chit Moe Pio’s 2018 debut, Going Home and directed his own first documentary in the following year. He also collaborated with four fellow-students on a short ‘true fictions’ drama featuring non-professional actors entitled Midtown Yangon.
May Myat Noe Aye
May Myat Noe Aye was born in Yangon in 1995. She studied German and business management and worked as a researcher for Enlightened Myanmar before joining Yangon Film School in 2018. Since then, she has worked in various capacities on several of her peers’ films: from sound recordist and/or designer on Kachin Reporter (dir. Sein Yamone Htoo) and Going Home (dir. Chit Moe Pio), to editor on Shin Thandar’s award-winning short documentary Worlds Apart. Other collaborative projects include an animated documentary Beyond the Hatred based on a story from the book ‘Of Peaceful Days …’, as well as a short drama about the inhabitants of an apartment block in Midtown Yangon, which she also helped to mix. Her own journey into directing began with a lively portrait of the well-known Mandalay-based performer Wareru in Burmese Rapper. Ruby Hunters is her second documentary.
Moe Kyaw Thu
Moe Kyaw Thu (born in 1991) is from Mandalay and joined YFS in 2018. He has since been making a name for himself as a cinematographer and/or editor on a number of YFS projects including Shin Thandar’s Lost Boy and Chit Moe Pio’s Mountain Camp. Having completed a course in participatory video, he joined a Travelling Cinema crew on a placement to Kyauk Gyi where he helped members of the community make two films: Hear Our Voice, about the need for more tertiary education opportunities for young people, and Rubbish, which makes a plea for better waste management in the community.
Seint Yamone Htoo
Seint Yamone Htoo was born in Yangon in 1991 and graduated with a maths major before studying the violin at the National University of Arts and Culture. She subsequently worked as a reporter for CNB News (Mandalay) and a video journalist for the Up To Date online channel for almost five years before joining YFS in 2018. During her studies at the School, she has worked on a number of collaborative projects, including the animated documentary Riding Through the Waves. Made entirely from textiles, the film describes the protagonist’s memories of peaceful co-existence between people of different religions and ethnicities in his home town in the Ayeyarwaddy delta. Seint Yamone Htoo has also co-directed a short fictional film Midtown Yangon which features a non-professional cast. Kachin Reporter for which she received a Goethe-Institut Myanmar documentary award, was her first documentary as a director. She is currently working on her graduation film with the working title The Village by the Sea.
Shin Thandar
Shin Thandar (born in 1991) is from Sittwe in Rakhine State in northwest Myanmar. Having studied English at Yangon’s University of Foreign Languages and gaining a diploma in Information Technology, she worked in the news department of national broadcaster MNTV and as a communications assistant for the World Bank for almost five years before joining YFS in 2018. During her studies at the School, she was a member of the creative team behind both the docuanimation Our Town and the ‘true fictions’ short Midtown Yangon. Made in her second year at YFS, Worlds Apart portrays a Hindu couple in restive Rakhine State and won a Goethe-Institut Ruby Documentary Award in 2019. Shin Thandar is currently working on her graduation project, also set in Rakhine. Alongside her studies, she uses her filmmaking skills as a development worker, promoting access to health, education and jobs. Lost Boy was her first documentary as a director.
