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Once Upon a Time There Was a Mom

Once Upon a Time There Was a Mom

မလေးဘယ်သို့သုံးပါ့မယ်

Lin Htet Aung | Myanmar | 2023 | 29' |

| IFFR 2023

Lin Htet Aung plays in an imaginative way with film language as well as film history. Telling the story of a man undergoing a transformation after his wife’s death, the film’s dysfunctional family represents Myanmar’s complex history – while drawing parallels with the Buddhist story Vessantara Jātaka. The filmmaker also adds a new work to the cinematic archive of the country, where a major part of film history has been damaged or destroyed.

– Koen de Rooij

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