Gor Gai Films
Welcome to Thoo Mweh Khee
Documentary | 25m | 2021
Staff and students at a school for refugees of the Karen ethnic minority, from Karen State in southeastern Myanmar, tell the story of their oppression at the hands of the Myanmarese dictatorship, and explain how they're fighting back through education.
Cambridge Short Film Festival 2024, Official Selection
Mind the Indie Film Festival 2024, Official Selection
Prague International Film Awards 2024, Nominated Best Short Documentary
Pune Short Film Festival 2024, Official Selection
Luleå International Film Festival, May 2024, Best Short Documentary
Stockholm City Film Festival, May 2024, Semi-Finalist
Political Film Festival, April 2024, Best Humanitarian Film
Alternative Film Festival, Spring 2024, Best Documentary Short
Demetera International Film Festival 2021, Best Documentary Short
Manchester Film Festival 2021, Official Selection
Bellaria International Film Festival 2020, Official Selection
Bucharest ShortCuts Cinefest 2020, Best Documentary
Sydney Lift-Off Film Festival, Nov 2020, Official Selection
Long Story Shorts International Film Festival, Nov 2020, Nominated for Best Documentary
Kosice Monthly International Film Festival, May 2020, Honourable Mention
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Love & Border
Documentary | 7m | 2020
Migrant women from Myanmar, living and working in a border town in western Thailand, talk about their experiences with and ideas about love.
British Association of Film and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Times In-Between Film Festival 2024, Official Selection
Hard Cases study group special screening, Antonio Meneghetti College, Recanto Maestro, Brazil, April 2023
Austin Indie Fest 2020, Finalist: Best Documentary
Sunday Shorts Film Festival 2020, Semi-Finalist
London X4 Seasonal Short Festival, Spring 2020, Special Mention
Mother & Daughters
Documentary | 7m | 2020
In a Lahu village in northern Thailand a Lahu mother and her two daughters try to describe their lives and their hopes for the future.
British Association of Film and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Times In-Between Film Festival 2024, Official Selection
Hard Cases study group special screening, Antonio Meneghetti College, Recanto Maestro, Brazil, April 2023​
Meet Big Bird
Documentary | 6m | 2019
Toh Pah Doh, aka Big Bird, makes self-produced hip-hop music in a refugee camp in western Thailand. He explains why hip-hop has become popular with young Karens.
British Association of Film and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Times In-Between Film Festival 2024, Official Selection
Hard Cases study group special screening, Antonio Meneghetti College, Recanto Maestro, Brazil, April 2023
Buenos Aires Film Festival 2019, Official Selection
Frostbite International Online Film Festival 2019, Official Selection
London X4 Seasonal Short Film Festival, Spring 2019, Commendation
YoungSinners - Naked Night
Music Video | 5m | 2019
YoungSinners, fronted by Toh Pah Doh aka Big Bird, are a self-producing hip-hop collective formed of Karen refugees.
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This song was recorded in a refugee camp in Thailand. The zero-budget video was shot using guerilla filmmaking techniques on location by the Thai-Myanmar border with a single camera and found light. It has been viewed over 250,000 times on YouTube.