The Berlin Panorama entry ‘The Myanmar Diaries’ chronicles life under a brutal dictatorship in harrowing detail: “Our hope is that people stand in solidarity with us.”
Military police pulling people from their homes and carting them off, without notice or explanation. Peaceful protestors beaten or shot in the streets. Alongside this citizen journalism,splices together short fictional films and expressive imagery evoking the subjective experience of life under a dictatorship.
“Right after the coup, we were in shock, disbelief and had the silly, maybe naive hope, that the military would make some sort of deal, that things would return to normal,” a member of the Myanmar Collective, who will be referred to in this story as Aung, tells“By the end of February, when we realized this was not going to happen and that things were going to get much worse, we decided to do something, using film, the only language we had.
In one of the film’s most striking images, a filmmaker, stripped to the waist, pulls a black plastic bag over his head and loudly hyperventilates as the camera rolls. Behind him, taped to the wall, is a series of protest slogans: We Want Justice. Give Us Democracy. Release Our Leaders. Save Myanmar. “I’m a filmmaker, I’m not interested in politics. But I’m on the side of those who want freedom,” says Hlaing. “I’m in, I helped make this film, to highlight our community’s situation and how we are really suffering. That’s all I can do.”in Berlin, the Myanmar Collective hopes to put its suffering back on the global agenda. “We’re very thankful for this opportunity,” says Hlaing.
The platform, which will be hosted in the Netherlands, will launch at the Movies That Matter Human Rights Film Festival in the Hague this April. Organizers hope the platform can act as a hub connecting local filmmakers and activists with the
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