Queer movies

Queerness, death, and resistance in What Happened to the Wolf?

By: Thwin Than Thar Nway, SFU Student Content warning: Brief mention of suicide and homophobia.  War doesn’t just destroy homes, take lives, or displace millions. In Myanmar, the civil war has also tried to silence the soul of the country: its songs, its art, and, especially, its media. In 2021 — the same year the military junta staged a coup and plunged the country into violence — What Happened to the Wolf?, directed by Na Gyi, was set for release. Sadly, due to the director and lead actor’s dissent against the junta, it never reached the domestic audience on the…

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