Synopsis
Limbo tells the powerful story of a 19-year-old woman who is raped at home in Kayin State by her uncle. Initially pressured by her uncle to remain silent and abort the child that resulted from the attack, she is still determined to obtain justice in order to bring up her young son in an equal society.
Credits
A film by:
Nwaye Zar Che Soe
Saw Eh Doh Poe
Animation Mentor: Debjani Mukherjee
Audio Mentor: Paromita Vohra
Sound Design/Music: Kyaw Ko Ko
Categories
Technical Details
Duration: 5‘0‘‘
16:9 Anamorphic
System: PAL
English Subtitles
2018
Copyright
Yangon Film School
Filmmaker's Biographies
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Nwaye Zar Che Soe
Nwaye Zar Che Soe was born in the Ayeyarwady Delta in 1979 but grew up in the Moe Kaung Electricity Yard in Ahlone Township in Yangon where her father worked for the Ministry of Electric Power. Before joining YFS in 2014, she took degrees in economics, computer applications and social work. She and her husband, who is visually impaired, are co-founders of the Myanmar Independent Living Initiative (MILI), an NGO focusing on raising awareness for people living with disabilities. She is also the founder of the Myanmar Cinemability Network which aims to foster filmmaking skills among young people with disabilities and vulnerable youths. Nwaye Zar Che Soe’s documentary Lovely Bones, a portrait of a severely disabled ferryman from the delta region, screened at several festivals and won awards in Myanmar and India. She also shares her skills as a directing mentor as part of the YFS train-to-teach programme and was a member of the creative team behind the award-winning sand-animation Limbo.
Saw Eh Doh Poe
Saw Eh Doh Poe is Karen and grew up in Yangon. Born in 1991 into a Christian pastor’s family, he attended a BARS liberal arts course at the Myanmar Insitute of Theology and then studied IT before turning his attentions to anime and graphic design. In 2014, in between stints as a graphic artist and fixer/producer at Eleven Media and BBC Media Action respectively, he enrolled at Yangon Film School where he attended the School’s flagship documentary course among others. He found his true calling in the School’s first docuanimation class in 2017 from which a trio of short films entitled End Violence Against Women! emerged. These films scored almost 1m views on social media and were also broadcast on national television and radio. His animation skills continued to grow in subsequent courses in 2018 during which he was a key creative on the award-winning sand animation Limbo (Grand Prix at WHO’s Health for All film festival in 2020), and the papier-mâché stop-motion film Our Town. He also worked on a series of animations on land rights and acceptance of difference produced by the School’s production arm Yangon Film Services.
Awards & Nominations
October, 2018
October, 2018
