Yangon Film Services Production Synopsis Love & other matters introduces us to seven different LGBT people living in Myanmar today. A warm and humorous documentary about the most human aspect of us all: the desire to love, be loved and be accepted. Credits Su Su Hlaing Director / Tun Lynn Cinematographer / Sai Kong Kham […]
Making sweets – and conversation Director and Editor:        Mi Mi Lwin, Cinematography:            Arrow Luck, Sound Recordists:          Nu Nu Hlaing, Mi Mi Lwin, Editing Mentors:             Melanie Sandford, Zaw Win Htwe SYNOPSIS A lovingly filmed portrait of the filmmaker’s parents who eke out a living making ‘jaggery’ sweets from toddy palm syrup in Myanmar’s central dry zone. BIOGRAPHY Mi Mi […]
Songs are the key to Nyein Moe’s life Director:  Arrow Luck Camera:   Arrow Luck Sound:     Mi Mi Lwin Editor:     Thet Su Hlaing SYNOPSIS Songs are the key to Nyein Moe’s life Guitarist and singer Nyein Moe lives with his family in coastal Mon State in Myanmar. He is HIV- positive – as are two other members […]
A mother remembers her student activist son Director:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Thwe Myo Nyunt, Cinematography:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Tin Yin Bala, Sound Recordist:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Soe Arkar Htun, Editor:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Zaw Win Htwe, Editing Mentor:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Tuula Mehtonen SYNOPSIS The mother of two men who took part in the 1988 pro-democracy uprising remembers their struggle and their sacrifice for the sake of a more open society in […]
Director:     Nwaye Zar Che Soe Camera:    Wyn Htut Sound:       Sai Nyi Nyi Editor:        Hnin Ei Hlaing SYNOPSIS Pauk Gyi earns a living ferrying people back and forth over the Ngawon River in Myanmar’s Delta. He and his wife share a deep attachment that transcends all manner of obstacles – including his own lifelong disability. TECHNICAL DETAILS Duration: 16’22 […]
A family of vendors on a Yangon ferry boat Director and Cinematographer:   Wyn Htut Editor & Sound Recordist:            Soe Arkar Htun SYNOPSIS A purely observational film that succeeds – without any narration – in describing the life of a family of vendors on a Yangon ferry boat and builds to a nicely atmospheric finish. BIOGRAPHY Wynn […]
Contemplating Myanmar’s Shan State Director & Editor: Sai Naw Kham, Cinematographer: Nay Lynn Htun, Sound Recordist: Soe Arkar Htun, Editing Mentor: Tuula Mehtonen SYNOPSIS 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 images that touch on […]
Synopsis In Kayah State, Myanmar, for over 60 years, different ethnic armed groups have been fighting the Burmese Army in a war for freedom and independence. A group of war veterans have opened an artificial leg workshop constructing a hundred legs per year for fellow veterans with the same stroke of fate – leaving ethnic […]
