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- Two Burmese immigrants fleeing their country's civil war in search of a new life in Thailand.
- Six friends, who have lost track of each other, decide to take a trip together to the Dream Weeping Forest. The mysterious events they experience there ensure that they will never forget this jungle journey.
- A tyre recycling workshop in South Okkalapa in Myanmar's former capital Yangon is a site of multiple uses und multiple death, for this is a place where defunct tyres are transformed from their original shape and use, and are reborn into new and completely different lives. Filmed 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.
- It happened in Burma in 1945, during World War II. A Japanese military captain is chasing a famous Burmese spy, hiding in a district hospital near Rangoon.
- Shan State in Myanmar is home to a rich culture filled with ancient songs, traditional dances and beliefs. It is also a place where civil war has been raging for over sixty years. Shan folk singer Nan Mya Han was a star when she was young. Now she is older her metaphorical verses reflect the deep sense of loss that pervades a people battered by Myanmar's ruinous politics. Interweaving her songs with compelling scenes of rituals around healing, death and birth, the film transcends the purely observational to become a multi-layered, elliptical exploration of decay and impermanence that is both moving and totally mesmerizing.
- Two friends were asked to spend a night in an acquaintance's house, only to discover sinister secrets that were slowly revealed to them. By the time they realize the hosts' intention, maybe it is too late for them to escape?
- "Mi" has nothing to lose. Everything to gain. But that doesn't necessarily mean she is winning in life. "Mi" is dying of Tuberculosis (TB), a disease with no cure at the time, (Post War Period). "Mi" couldn't care less, with cigarettes and brandy as her close companions. Post WWII Rangoon night life is her playground. Most men fall for her. Even though they knew that she could fool them, men are always after "Mi". Thaw Swe becomes an intimate player in the web of mystery that "Mi" has laid out, rife with dangers, corruptions, and deceits. Meanwhile, "Mi" has what she thinks as the bigger problem than any other things, doubting her exist- ence. Will Thaw Swe able to help Mi? The real question is, "Does Mi really want to be helped?"
- A family move out of town to raise an autistic daughter peacefully. The new colonial style house is full of old photograph taken by the wet-glass process. The girl changes, she sleeps at day and awake at night. The emotional daughter became polite and sweet little girl. The mom feels she really became a perfect mom for the first time. The house getting strange day by day with a mystery unsolved for a decades. Who really inside a little girl, the same autistic girl or a spirit? Will mother wants her real daughter back or continue with a sweet little girl?
- Two desperately ill women find solace in each other's company. They journey towards the fabled "sea of clouds" before dying, not knowing destiny has a twist in this eternal puzzle called life.
- A heartthrob musician must uncover a shameful secret when a vengeful spirit, the NAKED GHOST, picks off his music band members one by one.
- When US-raised Jaden returns to his birthplace Myanmar, to search for his roots, he discovers a shocking truth, a new love and ultimately a possible future in his homeland.
- During the politically unstable time, a young girl tries to escape Yangon by relying on her friend. However, things may not work out the way she planned.
- This film is dedicated to "The Year of Mercy". "The Confession" tells the story of a young priest who listens as an elderly man confesses to the sin of a murder he committed twenty years ago. The man is riddled with guilt and visibly pained by the choice he made to flee the scene and avoid the police. As the details of the man's crime continue to unfold, the priest suddenly realizes that he has a very personal connection to the story.
- A young couple must overcome a bitter grudge or be consumed by hate when the souls of their tormentors are reincarnated in their newborn twins.
- A general who sacrificed for secret historic bag on the night of November 1885 while Myanmar last federalist King Thibaw was exiled.Geroge J.Harlam an Anglo-Indian from England called George J Harlam who is interested in Myanmar ancient cultural heritages.George's adopted obedience son, Elvis.Htet Paing, who spent more than a decade of his life time in Europe becomes an accused criminal at one of the attorney offices on Pansodan St at Yangon.The daughter Saung Nanda who heritages the love and interest in ancient histories, abilities of discovering and collecting at ancient artifacts from her father.The girl who got the greatly power to be able to find historical treasure from her father as inheritances. Her name is Saung Nandar.
- Wai Bhone, a young film director, has to overcome the tough realities in order to direct his debut film. The hard worked scenario is criticised and undermined by the unpretentious censorship of the authorities. The film producers constantly pressure for lack of money, and even casting actors to the unfamous director is not an easy task. With the help of friends and relatives, the hardly prepared film production begins at last. However, an accident occurs in which an expensive camera is dropped. To fix the broken camera and to escape the difficult life, he even thinks of robbing the bank and he starts to plan. The debut film of Maung Sun satirizes the life of an artist based on events in Myanmar's modern history.
- On the western coastline of Myanmar, a gay couple and their adopted son build a family and navigate the complexities of belonging.
- Yangon, 1998. The film takes place on one evening at the government housing apartment by the railroad where a boy and his mother waiting for the return of the father, a civil servant, to move out another town at Upper Burma. The boy realises the unusual bond between him and his mother regards the young helpful man-next-door.
- A struggling ghost writer, Min Khant, has been dreaming about releasing his first "real" book but his cancer-drived mother prevented him from escaping the ghost writer life. His mundane life has been turned upside down
- An omnibus film, imagine a dystopian future ten years in the future.
- Zawana is confronted with several paths that open out defiantly before him, and he has to choose which one to take as the next step on his life's journey. The youth enters a small village monastery somewhere in Burma, led by its superior U Dahma. Zawana and the other novices are, as befits their age, playful and disobedient, and they find it hard to abide by the laws of the monastic robe. However, when U Dahma, who hasn't been running the monastery with a particularly firm hand, falls ill, the young man realizes that perhaps it's time to step out resolutely onto one of the paths and surrender to the school of life - and not only because his superior's death could mean the closure of the monastery.
- The new challenges awaits in the new world for the people of the previous. The place entitled 'Ananda'