AUNG SAN SUU KYI: LADY OF NO FEAR plus Director Q&A
We are delighted to welcome Anne Gyrithe Bonne, the director of this insightful documentary, who will be joining us for a post-screening Q&A.
Aung San Suu Kyi is known first and foremost as the political opposition leader at the centre of 20 years of social unrest and turmoil in Burma.
What many do not know is that she started out as a British housewife in the upper echelons of Oxford society, before going back to her oppressed homeland and joining the struggle for freedom. After her return she was held under house arrest for 15 years, during which she had minimal contact with her family.
LADY OF NO FEAR offers a close-up of the freedom fighter Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband, her "knight in shining armour" Dr Michael Aris, who died on his 53rd birthday in 1999, still unable to see his wife. Together they gave up their life together for the cause of freedom in Burma. The focus is on the personal consequences of such powerful idealism and the conviction that the current regime can be toppled by peaceful means.
