Nargis: When Time Stopped Breathing

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Nargis: When Time Stopped Breathing captures the devastation wrought by the cyclone of the same name which killed more than 140,000 people in May 2008 and left two and half million Burmese homeless. While Burma's ruling military, propped up by oil, was slow in responding and refused international aid, a group of undercover filmmakers set out for the rural Delta and main cities to tell the full story. Their images speak for themselves: a wilderness of water and greenery that would be paradisiacal if not for the ravage of fallen trees, blown-away huts, and collapsed houses... bewildered widows and orphans... and the slow, steady, painful work of beginning to piece back shelters, find parents, and come to terms with their leaders' apparent silence, and the world's.