Sugar & Spice

  • 9.3 10
  • 2016
  • 16min
Sugar & Spice
  • Original Title: Sugar & Spice (2001)

A lovingly filmed portrait of the filmmaker’s parents who make out a living making ‘jaggery’ sweets from toddy palm syrup in Myanmar’s central dry zone.

Sugar & Spice
Awards

AWARDS: Winner. Goethe/Institute Documentary Award/ Best Southeast Asian Film Award. Wathann Film Fest/ Best Student Documentary Award. Watersprite International Student Film Festival/ Winner of Grand Prix, Best Short, Governor of Tokyo Award. Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS: IDFA/ Singapore International Film Festival/ Mae La Film Festival/ Watersprite International Student Film Festival/ BIFED
 

Sugar & Spice. The flavors of a family in Myanmar

Director Mi Mi Lwin comes from Nyaung Oo Township in Mandalay Division in Myanmar’s central dry zone. Her parents are toddy palm farmers and they make out a living making ‘jaggery’ sweets from the palm's syrup.

In this student film showed at the renowned IDFA, Lwin choses to portray the lives of her own hard-working parents with the transparency of family intimacy.
 

Production Companies

Yangon Film School


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