What is Pa Nu's Family hiding from her?
Synopsis
Five-year-old Pan Nu loves both her mum and her older sister but it is her dad who really has a special place in her heart. One day she wakes up to discover he has disappeared.
Mum says he has gone on a business trip abroad but if so, why has he left behind his glasses and fountain pen? Pan Nu deeply misses her father and becomes convinced her
mother and sister are keeping something from her. Then a spiteful friend reveals the shocking truth. Based on true events in the screenwriter's own family when her father was
taken as a political prisoner, Missing is one of the first fiction films in Myanmar to address the wrongs of the previous military dictatorship and show its effect not only on individual activists but also on their families.
Director's Biography
Having joined Yangon Film School in 2011, Khin Myanmar (born in 1988) initially followed in the footsteps of her filmmaker father U Kyaw Zaw and focused on editing, a discipline she continues to practice, most recently editing the documentary Solomon, about the leader of the Chin resistance army, which won second prize in the YFS-Goethe Institut Documentary Competition in 2013, and Rubber’s Last Song about traditional methods of rubber production in Mon State. Khin Myanmar’s directing credits include The Dream, about a Chin Baptist preacher who has set up an orphanage in Yangon, and More Than A Tree, about the importance of mangroves for coastal communities. Made for NGO Malteser International, this documentary has screened to acclaim at festivals in Europe, Korea and Japan. She made her debut as a director of fiction in 2013 with Missing, one of the first fiction films in Myanmar to address the wrongs of the previous military dictatorship and show its effect not only on individual activists but also on their families. She was also part of the editing team working on the post-production of a television series commissioned by the NGO Pyoe Pin about the rule of law entitled, The Sun, the Moon and the Truth which was launched on national television in Myanmar in early 2015.
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