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The Road to Mandalay
Midi Z THE ROAD TO MANDALAY Chinese Taipei, Myanmar, France, Germany, 2016, 108’, color, DCP sceneggiatura screenplay Midi Z fotografia cinematography Tom Fan montaggio editing Matthieu Laclau musica music Lim Giong suono sound Duu-Chih Tu, Wu Shu-Yao scenografia production design Akekarat Homlaor costumi costumes Rujirumpai Mongkol, Phim Umari interpreti cast Kai Ko [Guo] Wu Ke-Xi [Lianqing] Wang Shin-Hong [Fu’an] Zhao De-Fu [Fu] Zheng Meng-Lan [Ersao] Pan Zheng-Li [Zhi] Kuang Jia-En [Jia’en] Li Wan-Wu [Wu] Xu De-Wei [Wei] produttori producers Patrick Mao Huang, Midi Z produzioni productions Seashore Image Productions, Flash Forward Entertainment Myanmar Montage Films, House on fire co-produttori co-producers Vincent Wang, Dominique Welinski Aditya Assart, Zhao De-Fu Katharina Suckale, Arfi Lamba co-produzioni co-productions Pop Pictures Company Limited, Bombay Berlin Film Production con il contributo di with the support of Ministry of Culture, Republic of China [Taiwan] The Rainbow Initiative Funds for Collaborative Cultural Projects Centre National de la Cinématographie et de l’Image Animée Ministère des Affaires Étrangères et du Développement International Institut Francais Berlinale World Cinema Fund vendite internazionali world sales Urban Distribution International [email protected] - www.urbandistrib.com I trafficanti di esseri umani seguono un percorso preciso: dalla Birmania alla Thailandia attraversando il fiume Mekong dalla città di frontiera Tachileik, lungo tranquille strade di campagna, passando i posti di blocco sorvegliati da poliziotti corrotti, fino a Bangkok, dove i migranti vengono lasciati soli. Lianqing è una dei cinque clandestini che fa questo percorso una notte d’estate del 2013; lungo la strada, un compagno d’avventura chiamato Guo si comporta in modo gentile, e i loro destini finiscono per incrociarsi. -
[Media Release] Nominee for Six Awards at the 2016 Golden Horse
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nominee for six awards including Best Feature Film at the 2016 Golden Horse Awards, The Road to Mandalay, to Premiere in Singapore as part of the 27th Singapore International Film Festival © The Road to Mandalay 2016 Singapore, 3 October 2016 – After recently winning the Fedeora Award for Best Film at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, and now announced as a nominee for six awards, including the Best Feature Film at the 53rd Golden Horse Awards, The Road to Mandalay (2016) (再见瓦城) by Myanmar-born, Taiwanese director Midi Z (趙德胤) will premiere in Singapore as part of the 27th Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF).The film will make its Singapore premiere as one of the Festival’s Special Presentation Films on 1 December 2016 at the Marina Bay Sands. The Road to Mandalay is a powerful and tragic love story that follows two illegal immigrants from Myanmar on a journey to Thailand seeking a better future. Starring Taiwanese actor-singer and Best New Actor at the 48th Golden Horse Awards Kai Ko (柯震東) and Best Actress at the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia in Tokyo Wu Ke- 1 Xi (吴可熙), the film examines the exploitative conditions and experience of millions of Burmese migrants who crossed their country’s border into Thailand looking for work and fleeing the civil war in recent years. Following its world premiere at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, The Road to Mandalay continued its festival circuit run at the 41st Toronto International Film Festival. The recipient of ARTE International Prize at the 2015 L’Atelier of Cinefondation of Festival de Cannes will also be screened at the 21st Busan International Film Festival this month, and as the closing film of the upcoming Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival on 24 November 2016, before its premiere in Singapore. -
Within and Without Midi Z's Films1
Poverty and Migration from Burma: Within and Without Midi Z’s Films1 Wen-Chin Chang Ever since I was little, poverty has been chasing me like a beast, compelling me to keep on running. Many other Burmese young people face the same condition and are forced to leave their homes to cities or abroad for making a living. Escaping poverty is the main cause of their migration, and acquiring wealth is their earnest wish. (Zhao 2015:65) Midi Z, also known as Zhao De-Yinor Kyawk Dad-Yin is a fourth-generation Yunnanese Chinese migrant born in 1982 in Lashio, northern Shan State in Burma (or Myanmar).2 Like the 1I am indebted to Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung’s careful reading of my paper and her meticulous and useful suggestions for my revision. For writing this paper, I have drawn on reports and articles on Midi Z, his Facebook page, public talks and a book by him on his filmmaking (Zhao 2015), and my interviews with him in Taipei (5 October 2014) and with his mother in Lashio (3 November 2014). 2The Yunnanese Chinese migrants (hereafter Yunnanese migrants) referred to in this paper are Han Chinese. Midi Z refers to his ancestral roots in Nanjing, China. It is not clear when the first-generation ancestor arrived in Yunnan. According to Midi Z’s mother, Midi Z’s great-grandfather migrated from Yunnan to a border place named Hemonglong in northern Shan State of Burma. Around 1968 when the Communist Party of Burma penetrated the area, the family moved from Hemonglong to Lashio (my interview with Midi Z’s mother). -
Ubiquitous Trafficking and Poverty As Problematic in Midi Z's Films
Transnational Cinemas ISSN: 2040-3526 (Print) 2040-3534 (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rtrc20 Towards a poor cinema: ubiquitous trafficking and poverty as problematic in Midi Z’s films Song Hwee Lim To cite this article: Song Hwee Lim (2018) Towards a poor cinema: ubiquitous trafficking and poverty as problematic in Midi Z’s films, Transnational Cinemas, 9:2, 131-146, DOI: 10.1080/20403526.2018.1454700 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/20403526.2018.1454700 Published online: 16 Apr 2018. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 210 View Crossmark data Citing articles: 1 View citing articles Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rtrc21 TRANSNATIONAL CINEMAS 2018, VOL. 9, NO. 2, 131–146 https://doi.org/10.1080/20403526.2018.1454700 Towards a poor cinema: ubiquitous trafficking and poverty as problematic in Midi Z’s films Song Hwee Lim Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY In his seminal essay, ‘Towards a Poor Theatre’, Jerzy Grotowski Received 21 July 2017 advocates a new form of theatre that will strip itself to the bone in Accepted 28 November 2017 order to reveal the quintessential nature of the art form. Borrowing KEYWORDS this notion for the medium of cinema, this article proposes that the Midi Z; poor cinema; production practice of the Burmese-Taiwanese director Midi Z operates trafficking; digital on a similar principle of a skeletal scale that demands a rethink about filmmaking; Myanmar; the nature of cinema.