Discoveries from Myanmar (Burma) World Cinema

အမျိုးကိုချစ်ပါ is a Burmese Comedy movie staring Tyron, Soe Myat Thuzar and etc..

ရှယ်အော်လံ is a Burmese comedy movie.

If you mess with one brother, you mess with the whole crew. "Once Upon a Time in Yangon" tells the story of people living with the spirit of those who refuse to back down.

Dimensions (Burmese: မျက်နှာပြင်များ) is a 2018 Burmese action-thriller film directed by Nyan Htin and starring Khar Ra, Alice Ong, Ja Seng Ing, Min Myat Soe San, and Win Myaing performed in this film. The film was presented by Shutter Production in association with Bonanza Production. The film premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 9 February 2018 and also screened in Singapore on 9 August 2018.

A mother fights against all odds to complete a Burmese(shin pyu)offering for her son.

Four old friends, who rarely see each other, always reunite on one important day each year.

Facing bankruptcy after losing a card game, U Bo Shwe and his daughter Khin May must defend themselves against the former’s creditor, Maung Tin, in this remake of the first Burmese film, Love and Liquor (1920).

Thit Lwin Htun, a transgender man, lives in the bustling city of Yangon, in a quiet neighbourhood where he runs a barber shop. He is finally happy with his body and loves his job. Now, he must learn to emotionally navigate his past life as a mother of a budding teenage daughter and presence as a recently married man.

Inspired by tarot imagery and concepts in alchemy, this video series features the figures of Death, Judgement and the World, and marks the transitional journey from a state of chaos to the birth of a new paradigm.

Maung Mu Paing Shin is a 1964 Burmese black-and-white drama film, directed by Aung Win.

This film offers a unique window onto Yangon, a city undergoing immense change. Living in harmony is the art of living in life. A city’s attractions can be irresistible and enticing. Yangon, is a safe fortress for the migrants where all live together. Through a unique mixture of narrated poetry and juxtaposed images from Yangon’s urban landscape, this documentary depicts a city that holds the hopes and aspirations of a diverse population, struggling and enduring in the hearts of all who live within it.

The painter Rahula lives a modest but contended existence with his family in Mingun, a village on the banks of the Ayeyarwaddy 11 km upriver from Mandalay. As a new work takes shape on a canvas in his studio next door to the towering base of Mingun's famously brick pagoda, we learn how this easy-going artist has managed to survive a sizable chunk of Myanmar's chequered history. Sawing the air with a cheroot, the jovial Rahula also reveals how he acquired his unusual name, his now successful abstract style, and his supportive wife, of whom he admits: 'If it weren't for her, I would still be painting pictures of monks and pagodas for the tourists.'

Students from various universities and colleges actively participated in the work of eradicating illiteracy in Myanmar.

Ba Phan and his grand-daughter Nyo Lae live in a small hut in the desert-like Dry Zone of central Myanmar. They make a tough living by cutting firewood in the forest and selling it to the nearby village. Nyo Lae asks her grandpa for permission to leave home and work at the Chinese border where she can make more money. Horrified, Ba Pha tries everything he can to stop her, but discovers something very disturbing.

A serene visual journey capturing the quiet beauty of a coastal town’s wildlife and landscapes, preserving fleeting moments of nature’s harmony before they slip away.

Short Horror Film directed by Arker Soeoo.

Before transitioning, Eingyinn May Tun was a famous actress. Now, he is trying to get back into the film industry as a producer and an actor. A Buddhist devotee, Eingyinn May Tun dreams of the day, he will be reborn in a male body.

Life is a cycle. When we die, we will be reborn in a new life. Film with the poem Slowly Towards Zero Point Zero by The Maw Naing.

a micro film about two characters on their journey for the meaning of life

The Milk Ogre curse is a belief still held in some Burmese villages to this day. The belief states that if a woman has the curse of the Milk Ogre upon her, her breast milk will kill the child. In order to break this curse, she must refuse to breastfeed her baby and put the child up for adoption.

A short film that explores the challenges of a bus conductor and his wife to make ends meet, having to cope with the long working hours and the daily power cuts in Myanmar. Yet, this queer couple seems to be completely integrated and accepted in their community despite LGBTQIA+ being legally persecuted by the military regime.

Two women, Shin and Susan, and one cat, Shwe Lone Chay, are slowly learning to be a family unit, lovingly accepting each other’s insecurities. In the face of the current LGBTQIA+ repression in Myanmar, same-sex marriage, for the time being, remains a faraway dream.

In this collaborative film, documentary filmmakers and photographers from around the world reflect on the mass movements and protests during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Within the chapters of a midnight theatrical piece, a painting process must be continued, and a tale about chess must be told under the moonlight.

A police officer daring to confront and launched investigation the corrupt politicians and their sons who committed rape of model that cause their downfall from power.

The story takes place in a small Chinese village located in northern Myanmar, where it was once the land of opium. A-Biao, a struggling young man, who has been away from Myanmar for more than a decade, gets tricked by his father into going back home and witnesses the political reform in Myanmar.

A reflexive documentary film on the director himself about his 2-year-long participatory experience in the Spring Revolution against the military coup in Myanmar.

This is a story about a young girl named GG, who lives with her grandma in an old house. She doesn't want to go to school and tell her grandma about it. But her grandma wants her to go to school to be a good student. So, she has to go to school and face school life problems. Some students bully her. But no one cares about her problems and her grandma also doesn't know about that. She has to solve her problems by herself.

Every year, thousands of Burmese women enter into forced marriages in China. Naing Hsu Pan uses animation to bring the moving account of one of these women to life. Using a wash drawing technique, the filmmaker paints a subtle portrait of a woman torn apart by homesickness, the oppression she has suffered and her love for her daughter.

Based on true story.

Echoing the story of Vessantara Jātaka, the film depicts a man’s post-widowhood transformation and Myanmar’s complex past through a dysfunctional family.

To his mother, Agyip is a 19-year-old who works as a hotel receptionist. What she doesn’t know is that by night her son has another persona and another life – as ‘Violet Katy’. In conservative Myanmar, drag is something of a nascent art and often frowned upon, but Agyip and his friend Myint Kant Zin are determined to don their make-up and costumes, strut their stuff and live the lives they want – in spite of family pressure.

Informed by Taoist notions on the flow of nature, Freedom of Clouds is an experimental audiovisual poem composed of two visual languages which shift in tandem with the sonic landscape. The first involves abstract audio-reactive particles imitating the movement of dust, while the second is composed of Myanmar’s urban scenes which blur and morph as the piece moves away from form and definition.

A son dissects his parents’ marriage – they were film icons in 1960s Myanmar. It turns out the heartrending scenes they acted out on the silver screen are a pretty accurate reflection of their real lives. While the camera slides across the glamour photos from their heyday, the filmmaker looks on, entranced. He grapples with the incredible fame of his parents. Now that he is reconstructing their relationship, he sees the old film footage through different eyes – as if it might contain the answers he didn’t get as a child, when his parents separated. This merging of family history and film excerpts creates a magical mix of fact and fiction, or 'the real and the celluloid wedding', as the son calls it. The son’s public revelation of how things went wrong is an emancipatory act, as divorce is still a big taboo in Myanmar.

A tyre recycling workshop in South Okkalapa in Myanmar's former capital of Yangon is a site of multiple uses and multiple deaths, for this is the place where defunct tyres are transformed from their original shape and use, and are reborn into new and completely different lives. Filmed almost entirely in black-and-white, this observational documentary gently explores a community of tyre cutters and recyclers, young and old, male and female, as they create with their super-sharp blades, careful eyes and skilful strokes, buckets, brushes and slippers from discarded rubber tyres. And, from time to time, in fleeting yet visceral moments in between their movements, snatched conversation and song, something lyrical, even philosophical emerges, and we are gently reminded of how every death gives way to a birth.

Early morning when everyone is fast asleep, creatures come out to play on these Yangon streets.

Life is but a moment. And the trials and tribulations life throws at us are also momentary. All things shall pass, just as they came, in due time.

A young man's desire to have his own private space led him to stay in their office toilet. What if this creates a problem and causes him to lose his job. What is left for him to do?

It is about a hope that a young lady is longing for during the reunion with her colleague.

A girl was so in love with her adopted brother but her brother engaged with his lover. She think she decide to stay or get away from this take. Using the cipher of an upside-down cockroach struggling to get up, a girl torn between her desires and sense of duty contemplates whether to stay or leave once she discovers her adopted brother, whom she is in love with, is engaged.

Through rediscovered tape recordings made in 1996, U Pe Thein - a renown political cartoonist-leads us on a journey about the history of politics and cartoons in Myanmar.

Nandar, a hair dresser, is stuck at work during holidays. Struggling with an intense personal problem, she tries to find a possible escape in her next door neighbor.

Under the watchful eye of a retired general in the Kayan New Land Army, a group of men and boys from all walks of life, religions and ethnicities in Myanmar get to grips with their addiction at a remote rehab-cum-boot-camp tucked away in the hills of southern Shan State.

It's an intense ride with this Muslim volunteer ambulance crew in Lashio in Myanmar's northern Shan State but one in which their dedication to helping those in need - regardless of gender, ethnicity or religion - is palpable and radiates a powerful message for peace. From beginning to tragic end.

A young girl comes into adulthood with confusion and repression by her parents.

Pho Pye, an 18-year-old punker from Myanmar, will soon play a concert in Yangon, his hometown, with friends, but he is unable to concentrate. He is depressed and confused by his parents' expectations. To gain peace of mind, he sets out on a meditation journey to a mythical temple town.

One of the very few Burma/Myanmar classics still in existence and is the country’s earliest surviving silent film in colour from 1950. Contemporary stars Phoe Par Gyi, Kyu Kyu, Pho Par Lay star in this romantic comedy, revolving around two friends who move to Yangon to look for work. They meet a beautiful young woman, Kyu Kyu, who lives with her aunt after her parents passed away. Though she is rich and owns her own company, Kyu Kyu is humble and attracts the attention of several suitors, including a police officer, an air force captain, and a writer. Starring many of the major Burmese actors of the time, the film is a precious document of the prolific and vibrant movie industry in Myanmar then.

Based on a true story, Burma's Hijack follows the Karen National Defence Organisation and their fight against the Burmese government.