Myanmar Diaries wins Berlinale Documentary Award
The documentary had its world premiere as part of the Panorama Dokumente programme
This announcement came at the award ceremony of the 72nd edition of the Berlinale. Myanmar Diaries, directed by the Myanmar Film Collective and produced by the Dutch ZIN DOC, receives the Berlinale Documentary Award, which is endowed with a 40,000 Euro prize money, funded by German public broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg. Myanmar Diaries is also awarded the Amnesty International Film Award, which comes with a 5.000 Euro prize money. On top of that, the festival also announced that Myanmar Diaries got third place in the Berlinale Panorama Audience Award run.
Myanmar Diaries by the Myanmar Film Collective
Myanmar Diaries* is a hybrid documentary film about life under Myanmar’s junta regime of terror in the aftermath of the military coup of February 1st 2021, told through intimate personal stories. Myanmar Diaries is built up of short films by ten young anonymous Burmese filmmakers, combined with emotionally harrowing citizen journalism documenting the junta’s brutality, as well as courageous resistance to it. An extremely urgent film made in a time when the subject of Myanmar has all but disappeared from the news.
Myanmar Diaries is produced by ZIN DOC. It is the third film of the collaboration between ZIN DOC and Myanmar filmmakers, with the first two films being Letter to San Zaw Htway (premiered at IDFA) and Sad Film* (premiered at Venice Film Festival). Sales are handled by Autlook Film Sales.
Read our interview with ZIN DOC's Corinne van Egeraat and Petr Lom here. For the full Dutch line-up at Berlinale with the screening times can be found here.
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*Film is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund