Midi Z

Midi Z was born in 1982 in Burma into a very modest family. He moved to Taiwan at the age of 16 after receiving a scholarship. He studied art at university and presented his first short film, Paloma Blanca in 2006. He then entered the Golden Horse Film Academy, founded by Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien, where he would sign his second short film, Motorcycle Driver, in 2008. In 2011 (the year he officially became a naturalized Taiwanese citizen), Midi Z embarked on a trilogy on Burma, Return to Burma in 2011, Poor Folk in 2012 and Ice Poison in 2014. He alternates between short films, documentaries and fiction, including Nina Wu in 2019 and The Unseen Sister in 2024.