Tender are the feet
Ché Phawa Daw Nu Nu
Maung Wunna
Myanmar – 1972Cast: San San Aye (Khin San), Zaw Lwin (Sein Lin), Aung Pyae (Hla Tun), May Nwè (Daw Khyu, Khin San’s mother), Aung Soe (Theatre director)
Screenplay: Min Shin, based on a novel by Aung Lin
Cinematography: Maung Soe
Production: Pan Wai Wai Film Production
Language: Burmese
Duration: 106 min
Color: Black and White

Synopsis: Sein Lin is a drummer in a traditional Burmese dance theatre ensemble in Rangoon, and he is very passionate about Burmese culture. He falls in love with the beautiful dancer Khin San, but she aspires to a career as a film actress and leaves the theatre. Sein Lin presents her with a small token to remember him by, a figurine symbolizing traditional theatre. He only asks that she return the gift if she truly decides never to come back to the traditional arts. Khin San basks in the glamourous life of a film actress, and after deciding to marry producer Hla Tun, she returns the figurine to heart-broken Sein Lin. Before long, however, Khin San realizes that Hla Tun has been keeping secrets that might change the answer she gave Sein Lin.

Emerald Jungle
Mya Ga Naing
Tin Maung
Myanmar – 1934

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..Cast: Daw Myint Myint, U Chit Shwe, U Ba Saw Gyi
Cinematography: U Myat Kyaw, U Ba Thaung
Production: A1 Film Company
Language: Silent with Burmese intertitles, music added in 1954 and dialogue in 1970
Duration: 97 min
Color: Black and White

Synopsis: Deep in the jungle, where tigers, snakes and elephants are at home, U Pho Thwa, owner of a sawmill, lives in idyllic tranquility with his delightful granddaughter Myint Myint. Out riding one day, Myint Myint is thrown from her horse into the river and saved from drowning by Chit Shwe, a handsome youth from Rangoon. Alas, the young couple must part all too soon, as Chit Shwe is bound back to the city to try and save his father from his cheating stepmother and from squandering the family’s fortune. Chit Shwe needs money, and decides to pretend to be a wanted criminal so that he may turn himself in for the reward. The police however give zealous chase, and Chit Shwe has to escape merely to stay alive, which he does using every available mode of transportation including hot air balloon. The winds of fate blow him in the direction of the sawmill. Happily reunited, Myint Myint and Chit Shwe fight off an attack from a group of thieves during which grandfather loses his life, but Chit Shwe receives the welcome news that his stepmother has finally eloped with her lover, father has regained his poise, and the young couple are anxiously awaited for tea and marriage blessings in Rangoon.

Treasure Trove
Yatanabon
Tin Maung
Myanmar – 1953Cast: Maung Tin Maung, Kyi Kyi Htay, Tin Tin Mu, Daw Gyan Sein, Shwe Nyar Maung, Daw Mya Lay, Thar Gaung
Screenplay: Shwe U Daung (novel), U Pe Thein
Production: A1 Film Company
Language: Burmese
Duration: 123 min
Color: Black and White

Synopsis: In 1945, at Yatanabon Residence in Mandalay, a joyless marriage collapses when Khin Sein Kyi leaves her husband, Htun Myat, and their three children, to elope with Thet Nyut. Once free of the bonds of matrimony, she realizes that her lover is far from an honorable man. Soon after they have a child Thet Nyut deserts her, while her husband Htun Myat, after years of waiting, has remarried. When she is disfigured by a burn, the only place she can turn to is back home, where, under disguise, she is able to take up position as a governess in the household of her former husband. Being close to her children is both a relief and a source of great torment. The pressure of keeping up a façade and the constant reminders that her family is trying to move on eventually takes its toll, and Khin Sein Kyi dies brokenhearted in the hands of her dear husband Htun Myat.