Myanmar Movies

Kan Gyi, Par Gyi, and their friend, spend their days doing odd-jobs and begging on the buses.Neglected by their parents, society, they spend their...

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

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...

Artist Htoo Lwin Myo excavates the lesser-known and wildly joyful history of Myanmar’s horror and genre film industry in the 1950s that has...

Artist-filmmaker Htoo Lwin Myo examines some of the earliest pre-cinematic objects portraying Myanmar's colonial past: magic lantern slides. A...

Mi Thein Kywe, a simple girl, lives in a small village. She is an orphan and is brought up by a distant aunt for whom she has to sell fish. One day a...

Chit Thaw Maung Maung is a 1963 Burmese black-and-white drama film.

Set against a rural backdrop, the film portrays the world of gangsters, exploring themes of loyalty, betrayal, and revenge through a blend of action...

A son looks after his dying father. Trapped together in the family home, old conflicts resurface while death approaches.

Thaa Shin Pyu follows a father and son relationship in the lead up to the young boy’s ordination as a novice monk. Their relationship is rocked...

In a small village, siblings Soe Myat Thuzar and Pyay Ti Oo live happily together. When they win the lottery and their dream of visiting the...

When a rich man is rich and endowed with money every night, when a servant who has been a servant in the house of his master has become rich for the...

Oak Soe is a bit-part actor in the Myanmar film industry who dreams of landing a lead role. Struggling to get by with little money, he is at pains to...

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

During the transitional period from COVID-19 to the new normal, a filmmaker exchanges visual conversations with 9 other filmmakers in a day through...

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...

A figure, ostensibly a soldier, carries the body of his “lover” through a journey of self-reflection. Elsewhere, a different kind of...