In 2011, Myanmar (the former Burma) emerged from 50 years of military dictatorship, but the country is still licking its wounds over five years later. The new documentary “Burma Storybook” explores the history of post-dictatorship Myanmar through Burmese poetry, the most popular art form in the country, specifically the work of poet and activist Maung Aung Pwint, who has spent large swathes of life his prison. Director Petr Lom captures Pwint’s story, from political exile to the reunion with his son, as well as a portrait of a country in transition, a new world that still leaves much past injustice intact. Watch the exclusive trailer for the film below.
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A former academic turned filmmaker, Lom has previously directed four feature-length documentaries: “On a Tightrope,” about the Uighur people, the Muslim minority population that live in northwestern China; “Letters to the President,” about...
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A former academic turned filmmaker, Lom has previously directed four feature-length documentaries: “On a Tightrope,” about the Uighur people, the Muslim minority population that live in northwestern China; “Letters to the President,” about...
- 1/18/2017
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Ben Affleck’s new thriller Argo has been announced as the Opening Gala film of this year’s Leeds International Film Festival. The widely-acclaimed Argo, based on the remarkable true story of a CIA expert posing as a fake film producer in order to infiltrate Iran at the time of the hostage crisis in 1979 and rescue a group of stranded Americans, will open the annual festival at Leeds Town Hall on Thursday 1 November. Argo will be released in the UK by Warner Bros on Wednesday 7 November.
Now in its 26th year, the biggest film festival in England to be held outside London runs until Sunday 18 November and will present 167 feature films and special programmes in 257 screenings and events. The full programme, available to view at www.leedsfilm.com, is presented in five distinct sections: Official Selection, Retrospectives, Fanomenon, Cinema Versa, and Short Film City.
Amour closes the Official Selection
Opening this year with Argo,...
Now in its 26th year, the biggest film festival in England to be held outside London runs until Sunday 18 November and will present 167 feature films and special programmes in 257 screenings and events. The full programme, available to view at www.leedsfilm.com, is presented in five distinct sections: Official Selection, Retrospectives, Fanomenon, Cinema Versa, and Short Film City.
Amour closes the Official Selection
Opening this year with Argo,...
- 10/12/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
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