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\n\tIn \u201cFruit Gathering,\u201d director and writer Aung Phyoe consciously avoided exploring the \u201csocial\u201d impact of the relationship between two suppressed women, creating a sense of alienation but also deep intimacy.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe film, which is premiering at the Karlovy Vary festival as part of the Crystal Globe competition and is co-produced by Myanmar, Czech Republic and France, is set in contemporary Myanmar and follows the friendship and connection that forms between two young women, San Kyi and Theint Theint Oo, working at a textile factory in Yangon over the course of a year and a half.<\/p>\n

\n\tPhyoe, who marks his directorial debut with \u201cFruit Gathering,\u201d grew up reading more literature and later discovered arthouse cinema outside of his country. When he started writing the script (chosen to develop in 2020 through Locarno\u2019s Open Doors co-production platform) he was drawn to looking into the \u201caffection or kindness of others\u201d outside of one\u2019s family.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhich somehow feels precious, but at the same time is very conditional,\u201d Phyoe says of the film based around the social class he grew up in around Myanmar. \u201cIn the world everything is changing and nothing is consistent, such kind of a relationship will never last. I know those feelings through my life and my upbringing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPhyoe was inspired to center a film on female connection from the women he was surrounded by from both his family and best friends: \u201cI really saw this complication, which is not always straightforward. Sometimes they are getting angry for something which is so small for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe also notes that queerness among women is \u201cmuch more accepted\u201d in his country than with men: \u201cThe closeness between women is very common. You can see the other girls are in the frame [of the film], they may not be couples, but they are holding hands, touching each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe textile factory setting came from Phyoe\u2019s father who worked in agriculture, as well as his own research dating back to 2016. Phyoe\u2019s experience as a filmmaker comes from directing shorts and studying editing at the Mumbai-based school Whistling Woods International, which trained him to always focus on the \u201crhythm\u201d of the settings he explores.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith Thaiddhi as cinematographer, Phyoe was set on shooting \u201cFruit Gathering\u201d in a 4:3 aspect ratio, which quickly became a learning experience because he \u201crealized it\u2019s very difficult to frame because you cannot have a proper close-up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI wanted to make a film that was very atmospheric, maybe, and also very restrained because it was a world I knew,\u201d Phyoe says of the visual look. \u201cBut still, there\u2019s some kind of rebellion [in there].\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn fact, \u201cFruit Gathering\u201d is the first film from Myanmar to premiere at Karlovy Vary, so audiences checking out the film in Czech Republic may be experiencing their country\u2019s cinema for the first time.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFor us, we are trying to achieve our own national language of cinema. We are very behind, and for most of the things we don\u2019t have support, it\u2019s very difficult to make films in this country,\u201d Phyoe says. \u201cWe also have to be very careful that political things have to be very subtle. For me personally, I try to achieve the rhythm in the film, which will hopefully resonate with my own lived experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

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