Missing

Missing

What is Pa Nu's Family hiding from her?

September, 2015
Wathann Film Fest #5
WINNER BEST SHORT FICTION FILM
Yangon, Myanmar

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.

Awards & Nominations

September, 2015
Wathann Film Fest #5
WINNER BEST SHORT FICTION FILM
Yangon, Myanmar

Screenings

October, 2018
Singapore National Gallery - Exhibition “Painting with Light”
Singapore
October, 2017
Kazan International Festival of Muslim Cinema
Kazan, Tartastan, Russia
May, 2017
1st Afro Asian Film Fest
Cairo, Egypt
October, 2016
Sapporo International Film Festival and Market
Sapporo, Japan
September, 2016
Pyongyang International Film Festival
Pyongyang, North Korea
August, 2016
Shinjuku International Film Festival,
Shinjuku, Japan
June, 2016
Short Shorts Film Festival
Tokyo, Japan
March, 2016
2015 IAWRT International Women‘s Film Festival,
New Delhi, India
March, 2016
Mini Vientianale
Vientiane, Laos

Director's Filmography

2015
Missing

Director

18‘57‘‘

2014
The Orchid Plantation

Editor

6‘0‘‘

2014
Rubber's Last Song

Editor

17‘0‘‘

2014
The Sun, the Moon and the Truth

TV-Series, Co-Editor

0‘0‘‘

2013

Editor

23‘27‘‘

2013

12‘21‘‘

2012

Director

14‘14‘‘

2012
The Business

Editor

7‘0‘‘

2011

Co-Director

15‘36‘‘

2011
Factory Girl

Director

7‘0‘‘

Pictures

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