Synopsis
Shot clandestinely over a 2-year period by best-selling novelist and filmmaker, Robert H. Lieberman, this film provides a rare look at the second-most isolated country on the planet. It lifts the curtain to expose the everyday life in a country that has been held in the iron grip of a brutal military regime for 48 years. This unique feature length documentary, culled from over 120 hours of striking images, is an impressionistic journey. Interviews and interactions with more than 100 people throughout Burma, including an interview with the recently released Aung San Suu Kyi, are interwoven with spectacular footage of this little seen nation and its people. -- (C) Official Site



“[THEY CALL IT MYANMAR is]...a thing of beauty; its cinematography, music and contemplative words make it not an angry documentary but more a hymn to a land that has grown out of the oldest cultures in Asia.”—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

“[THEY CALL IT MYANMAR is] A compelling portrait of an entire nation being kept in captivity and ignorance.”—Karsten Kastelan, Hollywood Reporter

“The film provides one of the ultimate functions of a documentary, taking us into the life and culture of a people most of us would never know.”—Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle