Director: Maung Sun
Runtime: 100 minutes
Country: Myanmar
Language: Burmese
Rating: PG13 (Some Coarse Language)

Funded to shoot a film based on his father’s reputation, young director Wai Bhone faces a deluge of troubles. His producer is breathing down his neck about censorship; his actors would rather be live-streaming; his alcoholic brother-in-law breaks the camera. As his rent keeps rising, his wife and child are losing hope. Money has four legs, and it’s only ever running away from him, and the more he chases after it, the worse his situation becomes.

Marking the centenary of Myanmar cinema in 2020, Maung Sun’s debut feature pays homage to the country’s rich film history, while satirising the systemic issues that plague the industry and nation at present. A timely work that employs humour as a tool of resistance and commentary at a time of political and social repression.

On 5 June 2021, the film’s producer and co-writer Ma Aeint was arrested by authorities in Yangon, where she is being detained as a political prisoner.

“ခြေလေးချောင်း”
ဗီဒီယိုဒါရိုက်တာ ဝေဘုန်းသည် ဆင်ဆာဖိနှိပ်မှု၊ ပရိုဂျူဆာ၏ တင်းကျပ်မှု နှင့် ရိုက်ကွင်းပေါ်မှ အလွဲများကြားမှ သူ၏ ပထမဆုံး ရုပ်ရှင်ကားကြီးကို မဖြစ်ဖြစ်အောင် ရိုက်မည်ဟု အားခဲထားသည်။ ခြေနှစ်ချောင်းသာရှိသည့် ဝေဘုန်းသည် ခြေလေးချောင်းရှိသည့်ငွေကို ပြေးလိုက်၍မမီ။ သူ့ယောက်ဖဖြစ်သူ အရက်သမား၏ အရှုပ်တော်ပုံများနှင့် နေ့စဉ်ဘဝ၏ လူမှုစီးပွားဖိစီးမှုများက ဆင့်ကဲရိုက်ခတ်လာသောအခါ ရုပ်ရှင်နှင့် လက်တွေ့ဘဝ ပြဿနာများ ရောယှက်ကုန်တော့သည်။

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