A film about the renowned Punk Band Rebel Riot in Yangon, Myanmar.
Punks are by definition rebels. They may sound and look like angry young men, but they are rebels with kindness and love: Kyaw Kyaw, the 25-year-old protagonist in the film, and his band members are committed to their ideals of humanity and peace. They make their living through their art and music. They help the poor.
We follow their way through life in Myanmar. What motivates them to be Punks? And how do they look at tradition, which in Myanmar is connected also to Buddhism?
German film director Andreas Hartman lived three months in Myanmar. He met Kyaw Kyaw and his band there. He followed their ways. As a true documentary filmmaker he wanted to be as close as possible and provide a film as authentic as it can be. He lived with them for three months. This explains why his camera seems present not only when they play music but when important conversations take place.
The director will present his film on March 15, 7 PM at Goethe-Institut Hanoi, followed by a discussion. In cooperation with DocLab and the Film Academy Hanoi, Hartmann will also conduct a workshop.
© Andrea Martens
Andreas Hartmann is a Berlin-based filmmaker and cinematographer who studied cinematography at the Film University Babelsberg. His first feature-length documentary “Days of Rain” (2010) premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Cinéma du Réel in the Centre Pompidou Paris. Between 2012 and 2013 Andreas Hartmann went as a DAAD scholarship holder to Myanmar to produce his second feature-length documentary “My Buddha is Punk” (2015). In 2014, he was Artist-in-residence in the Villa Kamogawa (Goethe-Institut) in Kyoto, Japan. Currently he is working on his new documentary "A Free Man" (2017).
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