History of Burma

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 Rawan guide who was helping his father.

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.

The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.

The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II.

Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.

After 70 years of civil war, a young man from an oppressed ethnic minority in Burma inspires a group of filmmakers to document the stateless and war-ravaged refugee camp he once called home.

This Kind of Love follows Burmese human rights activist, Aung Myo Min, as he returns home after 24 years in exile to pioneer LGBT rights in his country.

One Japanese student, Arata Shigeno meets Myanmar students, Paing San and Kaung Gon Htin in Yangon, Myanmar. They are interested in the situation at the time of WWII in Myanmar. They start their journey to their unforgettable history. They travel around Myanmar interviewing to elderly people and visiting historical places. Finally, they find their new view of the history based on their research and discussion.

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.

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.

During WW2, the American OSS mounts covert operations with the native Kachin against the Japanese army in the jungles of Burma.

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.

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.

Two Burmese immigrants fleeing their country's civil war in search of a new life in Thailand.

"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?"

Set between 2021 and 2022, the film tells the story of an unknown experimental filmmaker from Yangon caught between an obsession to have people experience 'G', an extraordinary emotion.

A view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhist through the portrait of the Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, leader of anti-Muslim movement in Myanmar.

The U.S. scholarships Austrian student Inge and young mining student from Burma Sao Kya Seng fall in love. But it's only at the lavish wedding ceremony that Inge discovers her husband is the ruling prince of the Shan state of Burma. After a coup staged by the Burmese military, Sao is imprisoned. Inge does everything she can to free him. Base on the true story of Inge Sargent.

During WW2, a 3000-strong American unit, known as Merrill's Marauders, battles the Japanese forces in Burma.

A platoon of special ops are tasked to parachute into the remote Burmese jungle and destroy a strategic Japanese radar station, but getting out isn't as easy.

The remarkable true story of refugee children who defy a regime with the help of a video camera. Burma is a death zone, battered by silent genocide and the longest civil war in history. Armed with a video camera, refugee students from Burma produce movies that become portals into the triumph and tragedy of their Karen people. Filmed over two years with original photography deep inside Thailand and Burma, this intimate journey examines war and hope through the eyes of children. This is their story...their words. And their dream for a better world.