Bite the Bullet
Director: Sai Kyaw Khaing
Country: Myanmar
Language: Burmese |English
Year: 2025
Run Time: 20 mins
Refugees and Youth Fight for their Future and Rights
A gripping story of resilience, loss and hope, Bite the bullet explores the forgotten struggles of refugees and youth fighting for their future and rights in Myanmar
Director:
Sai Kyaw Khaing is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and freelance photographer/ videographer. He was born in Langkho, Southern Shan State, Myanmar and has worked extensively across Southeast Asia. His short film Click in Fear which covers the 2007 Saffron Revolution, won the best short documentary award at the Art of Freedom Film Festival in 2012 in Myanmar and his film Strike with the Beat, covering the 2021 anti coup protest won best documentary at Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) Kyoto University Film Festival.
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Two Sides
Country: Myanmar
Language: Burmese
Run Time: 18 mins
A transgender married man learning to negotiate his past life as mother of a teenage daughter
Thit Lwin Htun, a transgender man, lives in the bustling city of Yangon, in a quiet neighbourhood where he runs a barber shop. He is finally happy with his body and loves his job. Now, he must learn to emotionally navigate his past life as mother of a budding teenage daughter and the present one as a recently married man.
Director: Anonymous for safety reasons.
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