Two years ago this month, the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar witnessed a coup d’état, in which the Tatmadaw (the military) seized power from the democratically elected National League for …
, a hybrid doc-fiction feature that shows viewers first-hand what is happening in the country. Ahead of the film’s premiere in the Berlin International Film Festival’s Panorama program on February 13, Deadline got in contact with the collective via an intermediary to find out more about their actions.
As they tell us below, the very act of filmmaking could result in imprisonment, or even death, and their efforts are becoming riskier by the day as the junta continues to repress all forms of journalism and artistic expression.
We are storytellers, we wanted to show this in our film, we want to express our pain and suffering. There is so much more going on, so much more misery than presented in our film. We want the world to understand our struggles. We want the world to show solidarity with us. We want people to take action. We want accountability for the atrocities the junta is committing. We want responsibility from the international world, we want people to stop all the support given to the military.
There are no restrictions due to Covid, nothing is being done to protect people. The military initially used Covid like a bio weapon. We have to take care of ourselves. When the third wave hit, even medical staff were captured, tortured and beaten. Still the way we see it, Covid is the least of our problems.
Now they have declared war against every ethnic armed organization in all parts of the country; there are many resistance rebel armies: people’s defense forces are operating underground in every town. Military soldiers burned down villages and towns, causing many war refugees. And there is a growing number of soldiers joining the Civil Disobedience Movement ; hundreds have now joined the revolutionary armies and ethnic armed organizations.
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