FRIDAY 19 | A rare look at the second most isolated country in the world, novelist and filmmaker Robert Lieberman’s They Call It Myanmar lifts the veil on life in Burma, held in the iron grip of a brutal military regime for almost 50 years. Scoring 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, the film was recently described by the Chicago Sun Times as one of the best documentaries of 2012. Writes the paper’s Roger Ebert: “They Call It Myanmar is a thing of beauty… a documentary with all the virtues of a great feature film; its cinematography, music and contemplative words make it… a hymn to a land that has grown out of the oldest cultures in Asia.”
WHO: The culturally and politically inquisitive
WHAT: They Call It Myanmar screening
WHERE: Meta House, #37 Sothearos Blvd.
WHEN: 7pm July 19
WHY: A tale of hope in the face of adversity