Synopsis
A naive young city doctor's first job out of medical school is a posting to a rural Kayin community in the Delta. Visiting his patients by boat, the doctor comes into the conflict with traditional Kayin ideas about medicine in the form of U Kee Yo, an old man determined to remain in his beloved bamboo grove. The Story is inspired by screenwriter Aung Min's own experience as a doctor amongst the Kayin people in the Ayeyarwaddy Delta.
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Credits
Director: Khin Khin Hsu
Camera: Mya Darli Aung
Sound: Kyaw Myo Lwin
Editor: Hnin Ei Hlaing
Screenwriter: Aung Min
Producer: Shin Daewe
Categories
True Fiction, Family Life, Society, Ethnic Diversity, Health, Work
Technical Details
Duration: 18‘42‘‘
16:9 Anamorphic
DVD PAL
English Subtitles
2011
Copyright
Yangon Film School
Director's Biography
Khin Khin Hsu (born in 1985) trained as cinematographer during the 2009 YFS Beginners' course but soon proved herself to be a talented and sensitive editor and/or director on various YFS projects including the warmly observational Thursday's Child and The Bamboo Grove. She grew up in a film environment and perhaps inherited her filmmaking talent from her father, the well-known Burmese editor U Ohn Maung. An audiovisual studies graduate of the FAMU film school in Prague, her other YFS editing credits include the True Fictions film Bungkus, and she also directed The Vanishing Forest, about the shocking depletion of one of Myanmar’s most important natural resources.
Awards & Nominations
July, 2013
Screenings
Director's Filmography
Actor
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Editor
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Director
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Director
5‘9‘‘
Director
18‘42‘‘
Cinematographer
12‘3‘‘
Editor
15‘0‘‘
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The screenwriter Aung Min graduated as a medical doctor but is also a professional writer with prose stories 'Bad Night' (1999), 'I Came To This Town On Assignment' (2003) and 'Incomplete Diary' (2995) published in the Myanmar language. Since joining a YFS Screenwriting Workshop in 2006 and a FAMU workshop in the same year, several of his scripts have been turned into short films in Myanmar and in the Czech Republic. In 2010, Aung Min directed a documentary, The Clinic, about his own Yangon medical practice. He is currently developing a feature-length screenplay with YFS filmmaker The Maw Naing.
