Myanmar Movies

Set against an operatic soundscape, period@period is a sensual interplay of sound and image that focuses on the anonymous protagonist’s monthly...

A lovingly filmed portrait of the filmmaker’s parents who make out a living making ‘jaggery’ sweets from toddy palm syrup in...

Four young people, Shwe Oak Phoe Tha Kyar Myat Yine and Pauk Pauk. A story brought about by the same beliefs in their different lives.

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

Moe Sat May's mother has passed away. One day, Moe Sat May's father remarries to a woman whom he doesn’t love.

In Hpakant, Myanmar, poor young people are numerous. Some of them engage in drug trafficking and make a living out of it. Some of them choose to...

An old woman from Mong Htet in northern Shan State in Myanmar looks back on a life marked by privation and loss. Her memories are interwoven with...

A dismissed chef and a failed rapper rob a car to flee from the city after having a very bad day. On their way, they meet a mentally unstable girl...

Governments – even decades-old military regimes – may come and go but, like many rural communities in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma),...

A son dissects his parents’ marriage – they were film icons in 1960s Myanmar. It turns out the heartrending scenes they acted out on the...

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...

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...

As a child, Phyo Lay would be beaten for behaving like a girl. Now 21, he is comfortable living as a woman and wishes everyone could accept him for...

A satirical film portraying a government censorship committee struggling to define on what grounds a critical film should be censored.

In May 2008, Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar's Ayeyarwaddy Delta, claiming 140,000 lives. Despite a filming ban, young Burmese filmmakers clandestinely...

The story is based on the families of two poor fishermen who live on the sandbank. These two families fight one another because of their poverty. The...

Story of a love triangle between three people.

In A Metamorphosis, Lin Htet Aung transforms the uncanny and absurd experiences of what it is like to grow up with state television propaganda into a...

Six pregnant women who share their optimism about the future of their children, and the future of the nation.