One father, one heartbreaking dilemma
Synopsis
Single father Ali lives in an overcrowded hostel. He is in constant need of money to pay for his sick five-year-old daughter’s medicine. When his landlord offers him work and a better income in Malaysia, Ali thinks that fellow hostel-dweller Lay Pyay could perhaps look after his daughter. But can Ali, a devout Muslim, leave his child with a woman who earns her living as a sex worker?
Credits
Directed by: Nyan Lynn Aung, Paing Aung, Shwe Yee Oo, Theingi Win, Yan Aung Htun
Edited by: Nang Cho Lae Yee Thein
Cast
Toe Zay Ya
Hnin Akayi Kyaw
K Khine Htun
Yan Naing
Kyaw Ko Ko
Thein Tun Oo
San San Wai
Categories
True Fiction, Family Life, Society, Women, Children, Health, Work, Religion
Technical Details
Duration: 26‘16‘‘
Format: 16:9 anamorphic
System: PAL
Subtitles: English
2024
Copyright
Yangon Film School Productions
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Nyan Lynn Aung’s first film as a director, Living with Elephants, looked at the relationship between the animals and their keepers; Paing Aung is developing a reputation as a skilled cinematographer, including on two Goethe Competition award-winning films, Love Like Ours and Bone Whisperers. Shwe Yee Oo has been working primarily as a director, including on The Novice Brothers and her Goethe Competition entry, The Boy Who Lives By the Sea, about a hearing-impaired teenager living in the Ayeyarwady Delta. Theingi Win has worked as cinematographer including on Pilikan about a Hindu temple outside Yangon and the award-winning documentary Shifting Sands, directed by May Thyn Kyi. Yan Aung Htun has also been focusing on camera, including as the cinematographer who had to go down an improvised mine shaft in the winner of the Goethe Competition’s top award, Ruby Hunters, directed by May Myat Noe Aye. Editor Nang Cho Lae Yee Thein was one of the editors on Sai Nyi Min Htut’s award-winning Boy Queen; she recently edited Yadanar Oo’s Life is Salty!
