Claire Franklin Film Productions

Germany 2010, 90 min
by Kyaw Kyaw Oo, Maung Myint Aung

On May 2, 2008, the cyclone Nargis raged over the south of Burma, wreaking massive destruction and taking the lives of more than 140,000 people. In Western news reports, the military regim's unwillingness to accept foreign aid got considerable attention. Nargis - When Time Stopped Breathing is an account of two teams of young Burmese filmmakers who went into the badly devastated Ayeyarwaddy Delta a week after the storm to allow survivors to tell their stories.At a leisurely pace, the images spea