A woman rests in front of the shuttered Shae Saung Cinema on Yangon's Sule Pagoda Road on July 27. (Hkun Lat I Frontier)
A woman rests in front of the shuttered Shae Saung Cinema on Yangon's Sule Pagoda Road on July 27. (Hkun Lat I Frontier)

Secrecy, backlogs and a pandemic: Myanmar’s film industry flounders

The film industry was dealing with a huge backlog of movies and questions about box office takings and tax evasion. Then came COVID-19.

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