Synopsis
A naive young city doctor's first job out of medical school is a posting to a rural Kayin community in the Delta. Visiting his patients by boat, the doctor comes into the conflict with traditional Kayin ideas about medicine in the form of U Kee Yo, an old man determined to remain in his beloved bamboo grove. The Story is inspired by screenwriter Aung Min's own experience as a doctor amongst the Kayin people in the Ayeyarwaddy Delta.
Director's Biography
First time director Khin Khin Hsu (born in 1985) trained as cinematographer during the 2009 YFS Beginners' Workshop and proved herself to be a talented and sensitive editor on various YFS projects in 2010 including the warmly observational Thursday's Child. She grew up in a film environment and perhaps inherited her filmmaking talent from her father, the well-known Burmese editor U Ohn Maung.
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The screenwriter Aung Min graduated as a medical doctor but is also a professional writer with prose stories 'Bad Night' (1999), 'I Came To This Town On Assignment' (2003) and 'Incomplete Diary' (2995) published in the Myanmar language. Since joining a YFS Screenwriting Workshop in 2006 and a FAMU workshop in the same year, several of his scripts have been turned into short films in Myanmar and in the Czech Republic. In 2010, Aung Min directed a documentary, The Clinic, about his own Yangon medical practice. He is currently developing a feature-length screenplay with YFS filmmaker The Maw Naing.