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- Two midwives, one Buddhist and one Muslim, defy strict ethnic divisions to work side by side in a makeshift clinic in western Myanmar, providing medical services to the Rohingya of Rakhine State.
- 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.
- 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?
- Having lived his whole life in an orphanage, Min embarks on a journey to a foreign land, seeking a brighter future, only to unravel a past he never imagined.
- Story of four young monks left alone in their remote monastery in Myanmar. Shot entirely in newly-opened Myanmar with non-actors, the film bridges spirit, cinema, and traditional Burmese storytelling to open a view onto an unseen world.
- Using smuggled footage, this documentary tells the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of monks.
- On the western coastline of Myanmar, a gay couple and their adopted son build a family and navigate the complexities of belonging.
- In the Magway region of Myanmar, a country home to one of the oldest petroleum industries in the world, live husband and wife Thein Shwe and Htwe Tin. Running an unregulated oil field, they produce a barrel every few days. They wish above all else to see their youngest son succeed, to break the cycle of poverty.
- A married couple open a community medical clinic offering affordable care and therapy for various illnesses and disorders. They treat physical ailments as well as provide counseling.
- 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.
- Kyaw Kyaw pursues the dream of seeing the punk scene take off in Myanmar, while raising awareness about persistent violations of human rights. His philosophy: A symbiosis of Buddhism and punk that rejects religious and political dogma.
- Nan is a high school girl who was born and raised in Tokyo but whose family come from Myanmar. She thinks of herself as Japanese but when Nan finds out that her father is planning on returning to his home and taking her with him, she finds out his history, how he took part in Myanmar's democratization campaign 30 years ago and emigrated to Japan as a refugee. His heart has always been with his mother country but for Nan, Japan is home.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- MEKONG 2030 is an anthology film comprising five short stories that envision the future of the Mekong River from different cultural perspectives.
- JESS is a single mother suffering with postpartum depression. KHAIPI is a Burmese immigrant who suffers daily abuse at the hands of his alcoholic father. Void of hope and dreams they find a safe haven in one another.
- 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.
- Shin-Hong Wang has been a Burmese guest-worker in Taiwan, but now there have been elections in his country, he decides it's time to return. During the journey from Rangoon to his birthplace, we hear propaganda songs on the radio about the blessings of democracy. When he sees his mother again after 12 years, she asks: 'Have you eaten?' With those same words, the mother of filmmaker Midi Z welcomed her son when he returned in 2008 after an absence of 10 years. In early 2011, soon after the elections, Midi Z went back again. This time he brought his camera, to shoot Return to Burma. Shin-Hong has the sad duty of returning the ashes of a friend who had a fatal accident in Taiwan. But there's also the joy of seeing friends and family. Young people still gather together to sing romantic songs and dream of working in China or even America. Shin-Hong's younger brother is about to leave for Malaysia. Shin-Hong himself would prefer to stay and goes to markets and smuggling centres to see if there are any opportunities for him. Return to Burma reflects a poor yet hopeful society in images that follow the countryside and the people's movements and often have a documentary approach. A rare Tiger too, because we don't see many films from Burma at all.
- 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
- A portrayal of the forced migration, which the Ta'ang people need to undergo, caused by an escalating civil war in the mountainous border-regions of Myanmar and China.
- 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.
- Shin-hong's mother goes to a fortune-teller for advice on her son's insomnia and life problems. The fortune-teller advises Shin-hong to get 14 apples and take them to a temple in rural Central Myanmar, where he must live as a monk for 14 days, eating an apple a day.
- The entire world praised the military and Aung San Suu Kyi, when power was passed on to the democracy icon after 50 years of military dictatorship. One year later she defended an ethnic cleansing and had isolated herself from the public. This film tells you why.
- Khan Pi is a father, retired from military special operations, and struggling to pay medical bills since the death of his wife. Offered a chance to get rich, Khan Pi has to decide whether to care for his family or maintain his integrity.
- 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?
- Tashi, a man in his early thirties is forced to come back to his village in the remote northeast region of india after eight years when he loses his job in the city. As he stays in the village waiting for news of any new job in the city to go back to, he begins to experience the life and culture of his native place and his people. He gradually begins rediscovering his roots, which he had never paid attention to earlier. He meet and falls in love with a girl, Anila, a school teacher in the village who helps him in the process. The experience in the village begins to slowly change him and he decides to finally stay back in the village and not go back even after he gets the news that he has found himself a new job in the city.
- 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.
- 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.
- 'The Bad Man' is a documentary of the life story of a violent and bloodthirsty young man from Kachin, Myanmar, who casually discusses killing as if it were not his own story. His past of a non-voluntary, military life has cost him a great deal and completely changed his post-military life. With all the wounds and experiences, he is now considering which path to take for the future.
- Fifteen Karen villagers from the jungles of Burma go up against oil giants UNOCAL and TOTAL in an inspiring David and Goliath story.