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One Step Film Forum is a non-profit annual film event which screens human rights films created by international, regional and local independent film-makers. Through the screenings, it hosts discussion sessions between the film-makers and film audiences on humanity and the art of film making. For 2020. This year forum will highlight 15 days online screening via Vimeo on demand followed by actual 5-days screening at Goethe-Institut on 23-27 October 2020. The first forum in 2019 engaged 1500 audience members through 3-days screening program at Goethe-Institut Myanmar in Yangon and its travelling community cinema program in 8 different places around Myanmar. 

Commemorating 100th year of Myanmar Cinema, Save Myanmar Film organizes this exhibition of neglected audiovisual heritage of Myanmar Cinema at Goethe-Insitut’s Auditorium in December  Among surviving 18 B/W films, one film is curated to be screened with a 35 mm film projector. Two other films, which are transferred from U-matic tape to digital format, will be screened. Other exhibition materials included the catalogue with a list of survived films, film stills, posters, equipment such as film cameras, sound devices, and props from film old ages. 
Save Myanmar Film is a project initiated by young independent film-makers, in collaboration with Ministry of Information, for restoring and conserving old Myanmar classic films being stored in Film Archive but found in poor conditions of maintenance. 

This significant annual event of Yangon Film School will screen 4 new short documentaries made by 12 new students from this year intake and fictions shorts from ‘Yangon Stories’ series made by students from earlier cohorts. It will also feature two short participatory videos made by local communities and supported by the facilitation of YFS students. This 15th year anniversary of YFS, it will celebrate with productions which reflect the soft power of filmmaking in building a better society.