Inside an empty apartment, a French film director (Joana Preiss) interviews Burmese refugees about their experiences encountering oppression and cruelty in their homeland and reads aloud poetry about the destruction of Hiroshima by atomic bomb. Featured as part of the Taipei Factory omnibus project at Cannes Directors' Fortnight, this hybrid documentary short was conceived as a collaboration between Myanmar-born Taiwanese director Midi Z and French filmmaker Joana Preiss.

“An excellent documentary short that, within just sixteen minutes, highlights the hardships Myanmar has faced and continues to endure while also demonstrating the filmmaking sensibility of director Midi Z, whose talent would fully flourish in his later works.” –Asian Movie Pulse

DIRECTED BY MIDI Z AND JOANA PREISS
TAIWAN | 2013 | BURMESE, FRENCH, MANDARIN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES