Myanmar Movies

There is a local tale in Burma about the Lady in Yellow, the bringer of death. She is well known by the name 'Ma Phei Wah'. The story unfolds after a...

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

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

Htay Aung Din becomes the notorious bandit Bo Aung Din, but when he falls for Ma Mya Win, the woman he kidnapped, he faces off against her detective...

Ko Naing is a long-term sentenced political prisoner facing another case. After a forced divorce and additional 10-year sentence, he loses contact...

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....

Myat Htun, a modest writer, and Khin Mi navigate the challenges of love, parenthood, and conflicting ambitions in this intimate portrait of a...

A boy searches for his missing father, who fell into a ravine while hunting for a rare Burmese butterfly. To do this, he must seek out the ethnic...

To My Bosom Friend is a Burmese black-and-white film released in 1979.

A free-sprited woman Thet Hnin Eain falls in love with a man Yu Maw who is too restricted by traditional and societal values.

The film follows a young boy from Inlay Lake on his quest for knowledge of Myanmar traditions, culture and Buddhism with his grandfather telling him...

After the 2021 military coup in Myanmar, 34-year-old Ohnmar plans to leave the country with her fiancé. However, her plans are complicated by...

Mother, Daughter, Sister (Amae, Thamee, Ama) exposes the Burmese military’s practice of using rape as a weapon of war and gives voice to Kachin...

A 1972 Burmese black-and-white drama film, directed by Thukha starring Nyunt Win, Cho Pyone, Kyauk Lone, Thein Maung and Jolly Swe.

Ko Naing flees Myanmar to avoid the military service law and settles in Bangkok, a city known as a paradise for foreigners. But for him, life is far...

memories and fallout of a love story that never began

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