Return to Burma
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- Movie: Return to Burma
- Director: Midi Z
- Writer: Midi Z
- Producer: Mizi Z, Patrick Mao Huang
- Cinematographer: Midi Z
- World Premiere: October, 2012 (Busan International Film Festival)
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- Runtime: 84 min.
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- Country: Taiwan/Myanmar
Plot
Xing-hong is a Burmese labourer of Chinese ethnicity who has worked on construction in Taipei for 10 years. Changes in Burma (aka Myanmar) prompt him to return with the ashes of his friend and coworker Rong, who died in Taipei. Back in his home village of Lashio, Xing-hong feels like a stranger in a foreign land. Family, friends and neighbours earn next to nothing. Everyone yearns to save enough money to illegally work abroad: Malaysia, Dubai or China are aspirational destinations. As he travels around his ethnic Chinese district, regaled by uniquely Burmese pop songs (lauding, for example, the government and congressmen for fostering Burma's push towards “democracy and freedom”) Xing-hong explores work options, asking everyone he meets how little they make. The best prospects, other than going back to work abroad, seem to be the thriving black markets for openly smuggled Chinese goods he finds everywhere.-- Vancouver International Film Festival
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Film Festivals
- 2011 (30th) Vancouver International Film Festival - September 29-October 14, 2011 - Dragons and Tigers *North American Premiere
- 2011 (16th) Busan International Film Festival - October 6-14, 2011 - New Currents * World Premiere
- 2011 (48th) Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival - November 3-24, 2011 - Going South
- 2012 (41st) International Film Festival Rotterdam - January 25-February 5, 2012 - Tiger Awards Competition *European Premiere
- 2012 (36th) Hong Kong International Film Festival - March 21-April 5, 20112 - Indie Power
- 2012 (3th) Terracotta Far East Film Festival - April 12-15, 2012 *UK Premiere
