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- "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?"
- Two Burmese immigrants fleeing their country's civil war in search of a new life in Thailand.
- 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.
- "Music" never gets old and so does "Love". The story is telling that music and love are the most fundamental companions regardless of the time.
- 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.
- A heartthrob musician must uncover a shameful secret when a vengeful spirit, the NAKED GHOST, picks off his music band members one by one.
- 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?
- On the western coastline of Myanmar, a gay couple and their adopted son build a family and navigate the complexities of belonging.
- 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.
- 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.
- Myanmar, 2023. Two years after the military coup, the country is in a state of chaos and violence. The junta is carrying out extrajudicial killings and seizing the property of activists and their families. Many activists have fled the country or joined the resistance armed groups. This feature-length omnibus film, consisting of nine short films by eight exiled Myanmar filmmakers, portrays the various viewpoints of ordinary Myanmar citizens who are caught up in a series of extraordinary events with heart-breaking, stunning, and inspirational results.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- The film is about the accident between the teenagers. Nyein Thaw,Chan Min and Aung teased Tracy about her crush on Nyein Thaw on April's Fool. She hated them since and try to revenge. Myat Noe who is studying abroad and Russell are sweet couple. Yathaw is Myat Noe's friend who helps them for her wedding. She has a younger brother,Nat Shine Ko who is the son of her father 2nd wife. Yathaw hates Nat Shine Ko and she always quarrells with him. One day,she break the photo album of his mother, Nat Shine Ko acridity to her. Then, Tracy and Nat Shine Ko meet and they try to reprisal to each others.
- Zwe Khant was accused of being a thief, as well as experiencing frequent supernatural events. But he had an older friend Plann who convinced him that he was not. When it comes to a tug of war between love and morality, which will win?
- Lake Pyar is a CANAL+ original crime/detective series about a young female detective by the name of Lake Pyar, who solves crimes with her unique deduction skills, together with her co-workers in the city of Yangon, Myanmar. Each episode consists of one criminal case. Gradually as the episodes go, the truth about Lake Pyar's past and her origin gets revealed.
- Thatoe Theik is a documentary-maker working on a film about the illegal Myanmar prostitution industry. He meets Shwe Kyar, his childhood friend - but each are so changed, at first neither realize this. Thatoe's main purpose is to raise awareness of the health risks and social stigma of sex workers. His aim is for the Government to register workers and protect prostitutes through official Employment Rights. The story unfolds with the reality of Shwe Kyar's life and Thatoe's education as he tries to understand the risks she and her fellow sex workers face. Winner - Myanmar Academy Awards 2019 - Best Film / Best Script / Best Actress (Phway Phway) / Best Editing.
- Arranged by a smuggling syndicate, A-Hong and his young teen sister along with a group of Burmese youngsters sneak across the Myanmar/Thailand border and arrive in a remote town called Dagudi in Northern Thailand. A-Hong's sister is taken away by the gangs as her mother has sold her to them. A-Hong goes to Bangkok and works under a tour guide, a wildcatter from Myanmar who has lived in Thailand illegally for years. The flood has killed the tourism business. A-Hong followed this big brother back to Dagudi, trying to sell a batch of medicine that could be made into profitable drugs to local gang leaders. All A-Hong wants is to get the cash quickly and redeem his sister, but he cannot reach the smuggling ring anymore as the phone number never works. San Mei, a young Burmese woman who is assigned a job by the smuggling syndicate to fetch A-Hong's sister, has been taking her risk by smuggling Burmese teenage girls overseas, hoping to get the Taiwanese Identity Card promised by the gang leader for years. After accomplishing the last assignment, she realizes the dream to gain the sense of security is hopeless. Unfolded through two parallel narratives, this is a border town story woven between Tolstoy, amphetamines and Durian.
- Despite hardships, there's a laid back tone to life in a fishing village in Myanmar, where residents make a living processing the fish and shrimp they catch. Things change, however, when the government issues a one-month fishing ban.
- Ten letters are sent from a man in Myanmar to a women in Thailand who loves and misses so much. But the letters are left unopened for 50 years. Until one day, the women's granddaughter is given those letters and asked to go and read every letter only from where they were written. This is how the impressive love story begins.
- Yuri is one of the films which reciprocates young love in a different way to the audience. This movie regards the life of students difficulties and a period of love blossoming.
- An omnibus film, imagine a dystopian future ten years in the future.
- Six directors each reflect on the Chinese diaspora.
- 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
- When a smart and beautiful young interior designer by the name of Nora takes a job at a hostel in a sleepy hill town, famous for its picturesque landscape, she can't begin to imagine what weird and dreadful experiences await her.
- Thousands of young people are dying from using drugs in Kachin State, Myanmar. When the government is not doing enough to crack down drugs problem, the civilians formed the anti-drugs organization called "Pat Jasan" which means "Stop and Clean the drugs" in local Kachin Language, to eradicate drugs. A clash between "Pa Jasan" grups and drugs lords occurred.
- Following a young girl struggling to get out of the drug dealing in Rangoon, a noir film mixed with romantic comedy coming from a country barely unknown on foreign screens, Myanmar.
- 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.
- Secret sad love between two Myanmar boys faced difficulties in their life long togetherness after one had forced to the arrange marriage.
- Four filmmaker friends rent a once grand but long decommissioned cinema in the outskirts of a rural town for the traveling film festival that they are organizing. The cinema is steeped in a dark and horrific history that they are not fully aware of. They are joined by Riya, a foreign NGO worker from India, who has a unique sensitivity to paranormal occurrences and ghostly presences. In freakish out-of-season heavy downpours, they are holed up in the cinema as electricity and lines of communications are cut out. One of them accidentally smears with blood from his opened wound on a magical tablet that is laced with curses that he discovers. And paranormal activities born out of the curses from the past begin to terrorize the helpless gang. Together, they have to muster their courage, resort to their practical knowledge, depending only on each other, and face the relentless evil of the cursed cinema. Or they will face unspeakable, horrific consequences that this unforgiving place lashes out at them.
- On the full moon nights, single ladies from Central Myanmar are disappearing out of the blue. It becomes noticed as time passes and everyone is being frightened when the day is coming nearer. What happens to them? Who is the criminal?
- 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.
- The story of the Milk Ogre curse is still accepted in some Burmese villages. The women living in that kind of village misbelieve that if a woman has a curse of milk ogre upon her, her baby will die by taking her breast milk. So, to avoid this tragedy, she denies to breastfeed her baby and rather sells the baby to someone else for adoption and then break the curse. The film was directed for the purpose of expressing this strange obsession.
- Since she enters her early adulthood, everything around Aye Aye seems to be falling apart. She starts to see things differently, at the same time she is being treated very differently even by her own parents. She has to face the stress of her desires, parental expectations, the need to find her place in repressive society. Aye Aye grew up with her distant cousin, Tin Swe since she was a child. Even their relationship starts changing the equilibrium. Aye Aye feels certain affection towards Tin Swe, who has been her close companion. Tin Swe persuaded her and they secretly fall in love. Through this experience, Aye Aye starts seeing herself as a woman, and finds satisfaction on doing something at the back of her parents. Their faith is about to be tested, by an encounter with a sudden rain while they are watching a movie at a cinema hall. Aye Aye has to face the reality of life, and the pain of her realization which is the uncertainty of her own future.
- She is brave, intelligent and sharp enough to set the plots to give lessons to those who are betrayals to their devoted spouses.
- It tells the story of Susu, a poor beggar girl who loves to dance, and who goes through many adventures before discovering the truth about life and death. The film is set in Mandalay and plays out against the rich cultural setting of the city, where Susu begs, later works and falls in love.
- In the broken family, father Kyaw Htet, mother Eaindray and their daughter Thu Thu who hates her father, living separately. When they happened to go grandma birthday which holds every year, Eaindray is busy with her works so that she asks help to his husband to send their daughter Thu Thu. What will happen between clumsy dad and his daughter on their way to the birthday party?
- Tick Tick Again is a story of reincarnation with a twist.It spans across two lifetimes and follows character Moe Nyi Nyi's journey as he retraces events from the present and progresses to the past. He attempts to unearth the connection between him and the happy couple who continually appear in his dreams, and it leads him to a shocking discovery. As he comes to terms with the honest truth and accepts the new reality, Nyi Nyi is forced to make an important decisionthat wil change the course of his life forever.