Broken Dreams: Stories from the Myanmar Coup

Broken Dreams: Stories from the Myanmar Coup (2023)

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Myanmar, 2023. Two years after the military coup, the country is in a state of chaos and violence. The junta is carrying out extrajudicial killings and seizing the property of activists and their families. Many activists have fled the country or joined the resistance armed groups. This feature-length omnibus film, consisting of nine short films by eight exiled Myanmar filmmakers, portrays the various viewpoints of ordinary Myanmar citizens who are caught up in a series of extraordinary events with heart-breaking, stunning, and inspirational results.

Date of release
2023-09-07
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
2h 8m
Genres
Drama

Casting

Interesting facts

Broken Dreams: Stories from the Myanmar Coup is a 2023 Burmese anthology film which consists of nine stories related to the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état and the resulting civil war. Edited and directed by the Ninefold Mosaic, a partially anonymous group of eight filmmakers, it was first screened in Thailand at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand (FCCT) in Bangkok on 7 September 2023, and was later screened as an entry to the 29th Kolkata International Film Festival on 10 December, where it won the NETPAC Award.

Production

Most of the cast and crew members of Broken Dreams were in exile during production of the film. Some of the directors grouped in the Ninefold Mosaic had previously worked on the 2022 collage film Myanmar Diaries, to which Broken Dreams is considered a follow-up.

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