Sittwe
Price:
$295.00
Filmmaker Name:
Jeanne Hallacy
Film Length:
20 min
Film Year:
2017
Duration:
0-20 min
Decade:
2010s
Language:
in Rakhine, Bengali, Burmese and English
Subtitle Language:
English subtitles
Color:
color
Closed-captioned:
closed-captioned
Region:
Asia
Subject:
Inequalities
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ABOUT
Sittwe is about two teenagers separated by conflict and segregation in Burma's Rakhine state, Phyu Phyu Than, a Rohingya girl and Aung San Myint, a Buddhist boy. Both youth saw their homes burned down during communal violence in 2012.
Phyu Phyu Than is confined in an apartheid-style camp and has no chance to go to school or travel to her home just a few miles away. Aung San Myint's family struggles to survive and support his high school studies to fulfill his dream to go to medical school.
Interviews filmed over two years with the teenagers reveal their ideas about each other's communities and the hope of reconciliation.
Sittwe was produced as a tool for facilitated discussions about peacebuilding in Burma. The film was due to premiere in Yangon at the Human Rights, Human Dignity Film Festival but was banned by the government censors.
Selected Screenings
Best Southeast Asia Short Documentary, Freedom Film Festival, Malaysia, 2017
Hong Kong Human Rights Festival, 2018
Association for Asian Studies, 2018
CREDITS & INFO
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