The Clinic
Midi Z
Taiwan, Myanmar 2024｜ Doc｜ Color｜87 minMyanmar
✧2024 台灣國際紀錄片影展再見真實獎
✧2023 阿姆斯特丹影展國際紀錄片影展國際競賽
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In a clinic in Yangon, most of the patients have mental disorders, including insomnia and auditory hallucination. Furthermore, some of them have drinking problems and must quit alcohol. The two doctors who run the clinic are a couple who are also artists. They not only use medicine to calm their patients down but teach them painting, allowing the patients to vent their hallucination and madness through artistic creation.
The Clinic is a mixture of documentary and feature film. The drama stems from the reality and the reality is packed with drama.
這個國家是一間巨大的精神診所，每個人都有著不同程度的心理疾病。男醫生想拍一部反映這個現狀的電影，但遲遲不敢下手。女醫師治療著精神病人的同時，自己也需要被治癒。
這是一部劇情與紀錄交錯的電影。電影中的電影、紀錄中的紀錄。它的戲劇來自於它的真實，而它的真實裡則充滿了戲劇。
Director
Midi Z
Born in Myanmar, Midi Z arrived in Taiwan at the age of sixteen. In 2011, Return to Burma, his debut feature, competed in Busan New Currents and Rotterdam Tiger Competitions. In 2014, Ice Poison won Best International Film at Edinburgh Film Festival and represented Taiwan at Foreign Language Oscars. In 2016, The Road to Mandalay won Best Feature Film FEDEORA Award at Venice Film Festival. Midi’s latest feature, Nina Wu, was selected for the Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival 2019.
In addition, Midi has made four documentaries, including Jade Miners (2015), City of Jade (2016), 14 Apples (2018) and The Clinic (2023). City of Jade, which world premiered at Berlinale 2016, was nominated Best
Documentary at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and the Golden Horse Awards in 2016 and won Special Mention at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2017.
除此之外，趙德胤也製作了四部紀錄片《挖玉石的人》(2015)、《翡翠之
城》(2016)、《十四顆蘋果》(2018)，並以《翡翠之城》入圍2016年亞太
銀幕大獎與金馬獎最佳紀錄片，隔年2017年贏得山形影展千波萬波單元特別提及獎。
11.16 ㊅ 13:30〡台南新光影城 4 廳〡★ Q&A session with the Director
This is a country where the civil war has not only been going on for seven decades but continued till today. This is a poor society in which the basic needs of thirty million people are never met. If we apply a broader definition of “psychiatric disorders” to the population, more than half of it have mental or psychological problems. But this film is not about “psychiatric patients” or “psychiatric clinic”. It tries to testify and document the chaotic phase the country is going through. Most people try to make themselves sleep better; having lost their freedom in this crazy and cruel life, they struggle to carry on with the help of the injections that help them sleep.
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