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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Midi Z

MIDI Z (1982, Burma) grew up in Burma/Myanmar but moved to Taiwan when he was 16, where he studied Film Directing. In 2009, he was named one of the most prominent directors by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Academy. Return to Burma, his debut feature, was selected for the Tiger Awards Competition in 2012 and The Palace on the Sea led to a Tiger Award nomination in 2014. Jade Miners (2015), his first documentary, was also selected for IFFR 2015. The Making of [5×1] is his first foray into Virtual Reality.

Filmography

(selection) Paloma blanca (2006, short), Motorcycle Driver (2008, short), Hua-Xing Incident (2009, short), Gui lai de ren/Return to Burma (2011), Qiong Ren, Liu Lian, Ma Yao, Tou Du Ke/Poor Folks (2012), Hai shang huang gung/The Palace on the Sea (2013, short), Letters from the South – segment Burial Clothes (2013, co-dir), Bing du/Ice Poison (2014), Wa yu shi de ren/Jade Miners (2015, doc), My Folks in Jade City (2016, instal), The Road to Mandalay (2016), Shisi ke ping guo/14 Apples (2018, doc), Juo ren mi mi/Nina Wu (2019), The Making of [5×1] (2019, VR)

Midi Z at IFFR

  • Poor Folk

    A gangster film that doesn’t look or feel like one, but like life itself. At least, life in the lawless border area between Myanmar (Burma) and

    • Hubert Bals Fund

  • Poor Folk

    A gangster film that doesn’t look or feel like one, but like life itself. At least, life in the lawless border area between Myanmar (Burma) and

    • Bright Future

  • Letters from the South

    An omnibus film about how immigrant Chinese in Southeast Asia cling to their traditional customs, language and habits – even after centuries in a diff

    • Spectrum

  • The Making of [5×1]

    360-degree film depicts the shooting of a film in a film, on the set of #MeToo drama Nina Wu.

    • Voices Main Programme

  • The Palace on the Sea

    The lead is a richly decorated, moored ship. A man and woman meet there as if in another time and place.

    • Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films

  • The Road to Mandalay

    Powerful drama about the tragic love between two illegal immigrants from Myanmar in Bangkok. In a very troubling scene, Midi Z ingeniously shows how L

    • Voices

  • Jade Miners

    A fascinating documentary, shot in the mountainous north of Burma. No filmmaker is welcome there, because, against the background of a civil war, the

    • Spectrum Premieres

  • Return to Burma

    At the moment, Myanmar (Burma) seems to be opening up slightly. Just before it did so, the young filmmaker Midi Z returned to his country of origin to

    • Tiger Awards Competition