An intimate journey through an emerging ethnic nation on the rise.

Witness their highest aspirations & their darkest hours along their intergenerational struggle for self-determination.

The Kachin Independence Organization has rapidly expanded the depth & reach of its state, as it fights to reclaim most of its resource rich lands back from its occupiers, the Burmese Junta.

Follow an authentic stream of consciousness throughout over a decade of state building & civil war in Kachinland, in the Eastern Himalayas and her foothills Areas even the UN & aid agencies rarely get a glimpse of.

The Laiza hotel is an unscripted raw nuanced visual poem through this emergent nation, its people & customs.

Actively filmed in a stunning visual style over 12 years. From peacetime, through the collapse of the ceasefire & into the full scale civil war

Studio Sakse