Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival held in Myanmar

From June 15 to 19 this year Human Rights Human Dignity International Film festival held in Yangon, Myanmar from June 15 to 19 this year. The Best Documentary Award, The Best Animation Award, The Best Document Award, Min Ko Naing Award and Aung San Su Kyi Awards have been awarded on June 19, 68 Birthday of Aung San Su Kyi.

All about 50 films submitted for Competition.

THE ACT OF KILLING, Indonesian movie has won The Prize.

The Act of Killing, created by Joshua Lincoin Oppenheimner is an American film director based in London, UK. Joshua had won many prizes about movies and some are Berlin Film Festival 2013 and Best Film Award, Prague 2013.

The Act of Killing has been about….

In 1965, the army took power in Indonesia by force. Prior to that, small players in the local underworld, thieves or debt collectors, had been given a task by soldiers; kill communists. Their death squads and regime representatives murdered more than a million alleged communists, ethnic Chinese and intellectuals. Danish filmmakers have now solicited the former leader of these units in an attempted to portray their rampage in a fiction film and document the process. The murderers joke about their actions on TV and are the celebrated guests of state officials. The Act of Killing offers a chilling insight into the minds of mass murderers and a probe of the society they helped to create.

Source: http://www.articles.myanmaronlinecentre.com/human-rights-human-dignity-international-film-festival-held-in-myanmar/