Southeast Asia 2: The Lives of Others

Language: Eng Duration: 70 min Age Limit: 7+

• Wed 4.3.

• 18:00

• Arthouse Cinema Niagara

• 12,50

• C015

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• Fri 6.3.

• 16:45

• Finnkino Cine Atlas 4

• 12,50

• E060

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  A Million Threads

  Director: -

  Country: -

  Year: 2006

  Genre: Documentary

  Duration: 16 min

  Every year on a full moon night in November, thirty women gather at Shwe Phone Pwint Pagoda in the Pazundaung district of Myanmar's former capital Yangon to take part in a competition known as Matho Thingan. Their task is to weave the finest robes for the temple's Buddha images. All robes must be finished by dawn otherwise they are considered 'stale'. Cheered on by large crowds and an orchestra of pulsating drums and high-pitched oboes, the teams of dedicated female competitors work the handlooms frenziedly back and forth in a feat that celebrates Buddha's own foster mother, Gautami, who is said to have woven her son a robe in a single day.

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  Dear Daughter

  Director: -

  Country: -

  Year: 2023

  Genre: Animation

  Duration: 13 min

  A young Burmese woman who was trafficked to China and sold into marriage tells her story. Based on the real-life protagonist’s own words and beautifully rendered in pen-and-ink, this animation portrays a woman torn between her love for the child she was forced to bear and her longing for the country to which she may never be able to return.

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  Burmese Butterfly

  Director: -

  Country: -

  Year: 2011

  Genre: Documentary

  Duration: 12 min

  Twenty-one-year-old hairdresser Phyo Lay looks back on a turbulent childhood and adolescence and describes how difficult it is to come out in Myanmar. A rare glimpse into the emergent gay community in this hitherto isolated country.

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  No Way to Live

  Director: -

  Country: -

  Year: 2025

  Genre: Documentary

  Duration: 29 min

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