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Again and Again (2005)

Again and Again

October, 2008
4th Zebra Poetry Film Festival
SPECIAL PRIZE 2008
Berlin, Germany

Synopsis

Life is a cycle. When we die, we will be reborn into a new life. A film featuring the “Slowly towards zero point zero” by The Maw Naing.

Director's Biography

Painter, writer and performance artist The Maw Naing was born in Mingyan, Myanmar in 1971. He took up painting after studying computer science in Singapore. Group multimedia shows, solo shows and six anthologies of poetry followed. His first film Again and Again was created during the Yangon Film School’s first filmmaking workshop in 2005. This short documentary, based on one of The Maw Naing’s own poems and filmed in a glass factory in Yangon, went on to screen at numerous festivals and museums internationally, winning an award at Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin. His second YFS film Are Not As … explored the confluence of film, performance art and political commentary; a third, Between the Pages (2010), is in the permanent collection at the Fukuoka Museum in Japan. The Maw Naing is a co-director (with Aung Min and Ko Ju) of The Clinic which screened at New York’s Guggenheim Museum in 2013. After studying at YFS, he took up studies in directing at the FAMU in Prague where he developed his first fiction feature film, The Monk (co-written by YFS Tutor Aung Min) in 2014. The film screened to acclaim at many major international festivals including Karlovy Vary, Busan, Rotterdam and Locarno. The Maw Naing was co-director of the first feature-length documentary from Myanmar, Nargis – when time stopped breathing, which also screened widely at festivals, picking up the FIPRESCI award in Mumbai, India. His latest feature The Women portrays a group of women who rise up against the injustice they face at the Yangon factory where they work.

Awards & Nominations

October, 2008
4th Zebra Poetry Film Festival
SPECIAL PRIZE 2008
Berlin, Germany

Screenings

May, 2024
Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival
Taipei, Taiwan
May, 2010
Zebra Poetry Festival
Marrakesh, Morocco
May, 2010
Kulturpolis Klaipeda Cultural Communication Center
Klaipėda, Lithuania
October, 2009
Documentary Film Days AF
Yangon, Myanmar
October, 2009
Oslo Poesiefestival
Oslo, Norway
May, 2009
55th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Oberhausen, Germany
May, 2009
International Istanbul Beyoglu Poetry Festival
Istanbul, Turkey
April, 2009
Ò Bhéal
Cork, Irland
March, 2009
Buchmesse Leipzig, Goethe Institute
Leipzig, Germany
February, 2009
Roma Poesia
Rome, Italy
November, 2008
International Festival of Autors
Toronto, Canada
November, 2008
Interfilm 24th International Short Film Festival
Berlin, Germany
November, 2007
American Anthologica Film Festival
USA
August, 2007
40th ASEAN Film Festival
Manila, Philippines
July, 2007
New Manila Film Festival
Manila, Philippines

Director's Filmography

2014
The Monk

Director

93‘0‘‘

2012
Nargis: When Time Stopped Breathing

Co-Director

90‘0‘‘

2007
... are not as

Director

8‘29‘‘

2005
Again and Again

Director

11‘4‘‘

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