Inle Echoes

After a devastating earthquake in Myanmar's Nyaung Shwe, lakeside communities confront loss and displacement. Through intimate observation, the film follows residents as they mourn, rebuild and remember. The lake becomes both witness and archive, reflecting resilience and grief after sudden rupture.

Thaiddhi: 'After the military coup in 2021, life in Myanmar became unbearably difficult for all of us. I was one of many struggling simply to survive. I often wondered how my parents endured the hardships of their own era — the socialist period and the military rule of the 1980s and 1990s. After the earthquake, I began having strange dreams about my mother, and those dreams stayed with me. They became the reason I decided to make this film. During production, I encountered extraordinary loving-kindness, strength and resilience in the women I met at Inle Lake. Their spirit moved me deeply and became a source of inspiration. Perhaps the dream's true meaning was to guide me towards these stories and towards an understanding of resilience passed quietly from one generation to the next.’