S-EXPRESS 2025: MYANMAR

Programmer: Thaiddhi
Email: thaiddhi@gmail.com

18+
Duration: 62:00

S-EXPRESS 2025: MYANMAR

BEING OHNMAR (ဥမ ာ)
[d][w] Sai Nyan Linn Sett
Myanmar / 2024 / Fiction / 19:00
After the 2021 military coup in Myanmar, 34-year-old Ohnmar plans to leave the country with her fiancé.
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INCARNATIONS OF LOVE, LOSS, AND TRIUMPH, 2023 (ချစ်ြခငး် ၊ ဆးံ ံးရြခငး် င ့် ေအာင် ငိ ြ် ခငး်တ၏ိ ့ ပံသ ဏ ာနမ် ျား)
[d][w] Maung Day
Myanmar / 2024 / Experimental / 09:00
This visual collage, composed of 23 film segments each of which runs for 23 seconds, is a poetic and narrative fragmentation of the filmmaker’s life in recent years.
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MOUTH OF THE SEA (ြမစ်ဝ)
[d][w] Kaung Myat Thu Kyaw
Myanmar / 2024 / Fiction / 19:00
Between two difference religions, between rules and love. The three humans create their own ailments.
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LET’S PARTY LIKE IT’S YESTERDAY (သ”ငယ်ချင်းေလးေယာက်)
[d][w] Hein Thway
Myanmar / 2024 / Fiction / 15:00
Four old friends, who rarely see each other, always reunite on one important day each year.
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Programmer's Bio
THAIDDHI is a Filmmaker, Producer, and also Film Programmer. He studies Filmmaking at FAMU in the Czech Republic. He co-founded Wathann Film Festival in 2011 and worked as a Programmer for the festival. In 2013 he founded Third Floor Film Production to produce Myanmar Independent film.

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