The Berlin Panorama entry ‘The Myanmar Diaries’ chronicles life under a brutal dictatorship in harrowing detail: “Our hope is that people stand in solidarity with us.” By Scott Roxborough Europe ...

Icarus Films has picked up North American rights to the Oscar-qualifying documentary Myanmar Diaries, helmed by the anonymous Myanmar Film Collective. The film, which won the Berlinale Documentary ...

PBS‘s long-running documentary showcase “POV” has picked up Sundance documentary contender “Midwives.” Directed by Snow Hnin El Hlaing and filmed over five years, the film — which premiered on Monday ...

IN THE OPENING scene of “Midwives”, Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing’s debut feature documentary, a young woman gives birth in a makeshift clinic in Myanmar. She is splayed out on a tarpaulin mat; an IV drip hangs ...