As Burma’s pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is about to be put on trial by the country’s military government, this timely and remarkable Dispatches film follows the lives of eight Burmese orphans as they struggle to survive the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis. The film also exposes the official intransigence of one of the world’s most brutal and secretive regimes. The film was shot covertly over the course of a year by two Burmese cameramen who risked an instant 30 year prison sentence if caught making the film, in order to reveal what day to day life is like for the ordinary people of Burma.

Monday 1 June 2009
8:00pm, Channel 4