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Mother at Arms (2018)

Mother at Arms

October, 2018
Alpavirama International Film Festival
Golden Comma Best Documentary Award
Ahmedabad, India
December, 2017
Goethe Institut Myanmar Documentary Awards
Diamond Award
Yangon, Myanmar

Synopsis

Mi Sue Pwint is a member of the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front, the student army formed after nationwide protests were brutally crushed by Myanmar’s military dictatorship in 1988. This film tells her extraordinary story as both a leading revolutionary and mother and describes how she is now actively engaged in the peace process in her deeply conflicted country.

Director's Biography

Nu Nu Hlaing (born in 1988) comes from a village in Bogalay in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwaddy delta. Following the devastating cyclone Nargis that swept through the delta in 2008 she came to Yangon where she attended courses in journalism run by capacity building organisation Myanmar Egress and later worked for the Myanmar Peace Centre. Since joining Yangon Film School in 2012 she has worked on numerous documentaries as a sound recordist. Mother At Arms, which won the top Diamond Award at the 2017 Goethe Institut Myanmar Documentary Awards, marks her first film as a director in her own right.

Awards & Nominations

October, 2018
Alpavirama International Film Festival
Golden Comma Best Documentary Award
Ahmedabad, India
December, 2017
Goethe Institut Myanmar Documentary Awards
Diamond Award
Yangon, Myanmar

Screenings

November, 2021
11th Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Warsaw, Poland
August, 2021
One Flower One World International Buddhist Film Festival
Seoul, South Korea
August, 2021
Seoul International Women’s Film Festival “Feminist Collectives”
Seoul, South Korea
October, 2020
Better World Film Festival
Murnau, Germany
November, 2019
17th International Festival Segni del Notte
Urbino, Italy
October, 2019
SUBTITLE CHICAGO
Chicago, Illinois, USA
October, 2019
International Festival Signe de Nuit
Paris, France
September, 2019
LA Myanmar Film Festival
Los Angeles, CA., USA
January, 2019
Dona I Cinema International Film Festival
Valencia, Spain
September, 2018
Wathann Film Fest #8
World Premiere
Yangon, Myanmar

Director's Filmography

2018
Mother at Arms

Director

21‘20‘‘

2016

Sound Recordist

16‘0‘‘

Pictures

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Mother At Arms