Koran and Karate YFS

Koran and Karate

Synopsis

Confident, focused and elegant, Myanmar Muslim Yi Yi Myint divides her time between looking after her mother, teaching Arabic and practising her faith. An accomplished Karate practitioner to boot, this charming thirty-six year old single woman would seem to have it all – except perhaps for the right marital partner…

Director's Biography

Engineering graduate War War Hlaing’s family are middle-class Myanmar Muslims. When she’s not helping out at the family’s market stall, she works as a development volunteer teaching life skills or staging plays with Myanmar interfaith peace group IYCAP. Proud of the liberal upbringing she has enjoyed and at having been able to pursue her own interests, she hopes that her first short documentary Koran and Karate will help change prevailing prejudices about Muslims in Myanmar today.

Screenings

November, 2013
Seoul International Women's Film Festival
Seoul, South Korea
September, 2013
Myanmar Film Festival of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA., USA

Director's Filmography

2012
Koran and Karate

Director

12‘35‘‘

2011

Co-Director

15‘36‘‘

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