Return to Burma ( Gui lái dí rén )

Return to Burma (DVD) (*)

$31.99

Original Title: Gui lái dí rén
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Chinese ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
84 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
Burma ( India, Eastern Asia )
Taiwan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Midi Z.

Written By:
Midi Z.

Actors:
Jiun Lu
Shin-Hong Wang

Synopsis:

After decades of military rule, Burma has finally held its first presidential election. Many Burmese living abroad believe that peace and prosperity will soon soon follow, including Wang Xing-Hong who is living as an immigrant laborer in Taiwan, who saves his money so he can return home. When Xing-hong arrives, he feels like a stranger in a foreign land but is determined to stay and make his life in Burma, and begins asking around for possible work to allow him to stay. One blackout night at the smuggling bazaar by the border between Burma and China, motorcycles roar into the daylight and through the protagonist's eyes, we witness the true face of Burma and the angst of its youngsters.

Construction worker Xing-hong (Wang Shin-hong) returns from Taiwan to visit his ethnically Chinese family in northern Burma (aka Myanmar) after a ten-year absence, bearing the cremated ashes of a fellow villager who died in a fall on their worksite. His reunion with his family during the height of the 2010 democratic elections (the first in decades) is decidedly underwhelming - apparently they have more interest in the earnings he sends home than his actual presence.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 24 November, 2012.

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