Category: Myanmar Films
Sustainable futures: ecologies, kinships, and communities in Southeast Asian Cinemas
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Deadline: December 1, 2024.Symposium date: 14 – 16 August 2025Symposium venue: Chiang Mai University The 12th Biennial Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference will take place at Chiang Mai University, on 14 – 16 August 2025. The focus of the conference is Sustainable Futures: ecologies, kinships and communities in Southeast Asian Cinemas. This theme will be […]
Book Talk: Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of Burmese Cinema
The world tends to see Myanmar (Burma) as an ancient, idyllic land of emerald-green rice paddies dotted with golden pagodas, yet sadly tarnished by a contemporary reality of grinding poverty, a decades-long civil war, and the most enduring military dictatorship in modern history. Burmese society is frequently stereotyped as isolated, hidebound to Buddhist cultural foundations, […]
Documentary Screening: Above and Below the Ground
Above and Below the Ground depicts the Indigenous women activists and punk rock pastors leading Myanmar’s first country-wide environmental movement. When the Myanmar army and a Chinese corporate giant force Indigenous Kachin people off their ancestral land to build the massive Myitsone Dam, grandmother Lu Ra stands her ground. We see her struggle to save […]
EWC Arts Program Spotlight on Myanmar
The East-West Center Arts Program will be holding events with a focus on Myanmar throughout Spring 2017.
