S - Express (Myanmar)
Day 2: 7 July 2023 (Friday)
The Shoplot, 4th Floor
2 - 3:30 pm
On Wednesday Born
A teenage boy, Shine Htet who wants to do nothing but drawing, is finding a stable job upon his mother’s request. But after their visit to a fortune teller who said to get rid of unlucky things at home, he realizes that he can’t be no longer holding his dream.
Thiri
Thiri is a third year film student at National University Of Art & Culture Yangonmajored in directing. After the coup happened, she participated in Students Disobedience Movement against the military by not going to the school. Then she joined Akat Alat FIlmmaking Workshop" and made her first short film.
Due to political turmoil and school closes, a university student , Hnin Pwint ( 18 ) returns her hometown.She wants to support protesting campaigns and that took her to start a conflict with her old grandma who witnessed 88 uprising, 2007 Saffron Revolution with a trauma of losing her son in a protest.
Shwe Phoo, Hsu Nandi
Both Shwe Phoo and Hsu Nadi, are different majored final year students from National University of Art & Culture. But after coup, they stopped attending their
university and worked in some commercial productions and Indie-shortfilm projects, joined a workshop in same group and together directed their depute short "A Summer Break".
A Summer Break
A Wave In Dead Water
Thel Thel (18) and Phyoe (18) got captured during a protest. After Thel Thel got released only because of her father's connection, she tries all she can to help her friend, Phyoe, who is still in jail.
ALinn
A Linn, a third year CDM student majored in Cinema and Drama from National University of Art and Culture Yangon. Because of the political turmoil in Myanmar,She stops the school as a resistance to the coup and she joined a filmmaking workshop and directed her short film "A Wave In Dead Water" .
Fish In The Tank
As the economic crisis rises , U Lu Maung (56) an old factory worker tries to grab an opportunity to receive extra money to treat his sick wife. But when he realizes that chance will take him to risk his morals, he is already trapped in a dilemma to take the chance.
Shweyi Lin Lei
Shweyi Lin Lei, was a first year film student. Only after a half year of her University, the political situation hits. She boycott her government university and try other ways to learn filmmaking. Then, She joined a Workshop and got a chance to have her very first experience of making a film.
