Our Burmese Days

U.K.-born director Lindsey Merrison spent the first half of her life not even knowing that her mother, Sally, was Anglo-Burmese. Speaking in impeccable English, and claiming she came from Hemel Hempstead (a byword for white, middle-class respectability northwest of London), the latter never referred to the country she left in the early '50s. Merrison's documentary takes her mom and her uncle Bill on a trip back to Burma for the first time in roughly 40 years, revisiting sites from their youth, some of which are largely changed.