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After the Uprising - Burma
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After the Uprising - Burma

2007 · 18 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Burma's capital sits quiet on 11 December 2007, only months after regime soldiers beat peaceful demonstrators in these same streets. The soldiers are mostly gone now, and so are the crowds, but the calm is enforced rather than restored. A film crew works undercover, posing as tourists because foreign journalists are barred from the country, and gathers testimony from people who took part in the uprising. Every one of them has since fled Burma, a fact the filmmakers state plainly as the price of speaking to a camera. The interviews trace what happened after the protests were crushed: arrests, disappearances, and a junta that still controls the streets even without visible troops on them. There is no reenactment and no narrator smoothing over the danger; the footage itself, shot in secret with hidden cameras, is the evidence. The film offers a rare, risk-laden look inside a country that keeps foreign media out, built entirely from what its subjects were willing to say knowing they could never go home again.