RAIN IN 2020

RAIN IN 2020, winner of the Jury Special Mention of the International Competition at the 2022 Taiwan International Documentary Festival, depicts a changing family and the current situation of society in Myanmar amid the pandemic in 2020.

This seven-years-documentary tells a family’s changing and the current situation of the society in Myanmar. The pandemic had been spreading in 2020, A major collapse happened at a jadeite mine, many miners were killed and injured, and Ah Tian was forced to go back home from the jade mine in the rainy season. Heavy rain causes the family and the entire village to soak in the flooding sewage. Masks getting wet and dry over and over again is like people in Myanmar tucking in the life dilemma. Nobody knows when will the muddy water be gone and the calm after the storm is…