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In This Land We’re Briefly Ghosts

  • Dir. Chen-Wen Lo
  • Burmese / Myanmar, Taiwan, USA / 2019
  • Short
  • Program One: Your Worst Enemy
  • Narrative

Myanmar, 2013. A 12-year-old Burmese child soldier, imprisoned for deserting battle, is forced to either kill her older brother, a fellow deserter—or die alongside him. Based on actual events.