The Bamboo Grove

The Bamboo Grove

July, 2013
Singapore Myanmar Film Festival
Best Film Award
Singapore

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.

Awards & Nominations

July, 2013
Singapore Myanmar Film Festival
Best Film Award
Singapore

Screenings

November, 2021
11th Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Warsaw, Poland
November, 2014
IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival
Ahmedabad, India
October, 2014
Jihlava International Film Festival
Jihlava, Czech Republic
March, 2014
Indian Women Film Festival
New Delhi, India
September, 2013
Yxine Film Festival
Hanoi, Vietnam
February, 2012
 Lifescapes Southeast Asian Film Festival
Chiang Mai, Thailand
November, 2011
Interfilm: International Short Film Festival
Weitblick Süd Ostasien Section
Berlin, Germany

Director's Filmography

2011
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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.

Pictures

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