After filming political footage, a Myanmar filmmaker must flee his country. As a refugee amongst refugees in Thailand, his camera becomes the most important tool to survive and overcome the many days away from home. The Myanmar filmmaker Tin Win Naing documents the plight of migrants who have fled the civil war in Myanmar for refuge in Thailand and now toil as plantation workers in conditions tantamount to slave labor.

Director Biography - Tin Win Naing

in Win Naing began his filmmaking career in 1995 at a local Myanmar TV station. He became one of the first students of the pioneering film school YANGON FILM SCHOOL in 2005. In the following years he filmed many documentary films such as "In the Shadow of the Mountains" or II Into the Ring" which was awarded "Best Film" by Heinrich Boe/I Foundation in 2007.

Tin Win Naing continues to make many more short films with Yangon Film Services and acted as the lead cinematographer for the multiple award-winning feature-length documentary "Nargis: When Time Stopped Breathing" as well as the internationally distributed feature "The Monk". Besides his activities as a filmmaker, he is teaching cinematography at Yangon Film School, Myanmar.