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Love & Other Matters

Synopsis

Love & Other Matters introduces us to seven different LGBTQIA+ people living in Myanmar today. A warm and humorous documentary about the most human aspect of us all: the desire to love, be loved and be accepted.

Director's Biography

Screenwriter Su Su Hlaing (born in 1983) is a young Yangon-based writer of short stories and articles who also works as a journalist for one of the city's burgeoning radio stations. She encountered a boy like Yarzar in Apyauk whilst visiting relatives in the area and wrote the script for To School during the 2012 YFS Art of Screenwriting course. Su Su Hlaing is a winner of the inaugural YFS Screenwriting Competition and is currently developing Splash, a feature length screenplay about Wa Toke, a young street kid who falls into the clutches of a Fagin-like figure and becomes addicted to glue – a growing problem amongst homeless children in Yangon.

Screenings

September, 2017
10th Myanmar Film Festival of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA., USA
October, 2016
Salzburg Global LGBT Forum
Chiang Mai, Thailand
May, 2016
IDAHOT Pride Week
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
January, 2016
&PROUD LBGT Film Festival
Yangon, Myanmar

Director's Filmography

2016
Love & Other Matters

Director

38‘28‘‘

2015

Screenwriter / 1st AD

15‘19‘‘

Pictures

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