THE ROAD TO MANDALAY

By Midi Z

URBAN SALES - as SALES All rights, World

Romance - Completed 2016


Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2016
Contemporary World Cinema
Busan - BIFF/APM 2016
A Window on Asian Cinema
Venice Days 2016
Rotterdam IFF 2017
Voices
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Romance, Drama
    • Countries
    • TAIWAN, FRANCE, GERMANY, BIRMANIE
    • Languages
    • THAI
    • Duration
    • 108 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Midi Z
    • Producer(s)
    • Patrick Mao HUANG (FLASH FORWARD ENTERTAINMENT), Midi Z (SEASHORE IMAGE PRODUCTIONS CO., LTD.)
    • Synopsis
    • The human traffickers have a well-established route: from Burma into Thailand across the Mekong River at Tchilek, along quiet country roads, passing bribed police checkpoints and into Bangkok, where the illegal migrants are on their own. Lianqing is one of five illegals who travels this route one summer night in 2013; along the way a fellow migrant called Guo is kind to her, and their fates later become entwined. Once in Thailand, Lianqing finds ‘underground’ jobs, saves money and finds out where to buy fake identity papers with the hope of making it to Taiwan. But Guo has different ambitions…