Bury the Hatchet
NOFF Award Winner
Synopsis
Cooking, animation and politics – a Burmese love story online – this is an intimate ‘documation’ about a unique online relationship that transcends not only the latest methods of communication, but also the shackles of a cruel political regime. Imagine if the closest you could ever come to returning home was via Google Earth; for a Burmese exile, the internet is more than a modern convenience, it is a lifeline to a homeland. For Maung Maung Aye, an animator, chef and ex-Burma Student Army freedom fighter now living in Australia, it means even more – it is a portal into an intriguing world of romance and activism. Virtual Freedom is the charming story of one man in exile, but it is also the story of Burma, a country desperate to free itself from the clutches of a brutal military dictatorship.
