About the Author
Sein Lyan Tun is a Burmese filmmaker based in Paris. His short films have been selected at Busan, Clermont-Ferrand, Winterthur and the Locarno Filmmakers Academy. His documentary For Me And Others Like Me won the Docs Spirit Award and the HosoBunka Foundation Prize. An alumnus of Berlinale Talents, IDFA Academy and Talents Tokyo, his first feature film The Beer Girl In Yangon was selected at the Cinéfondation de Cannes 2022. His documentary The Bamboo Family won the Cannes Docs Award and the DOK Leipzig Award in 2023. In 2024, he founded Dosiciné to support young Burmese filmmakers.
Developed Projects
After fleeing Myanmar's 2021 military coup, Sein, a Burmese filmmaker, lives in exile in Paris, painting houses by day and editing protest footage by night. He refuses asylum, fearing it would erase his identity. His exile mirrors a rupture with his father, a former political prisoner who begs him to stay silent. Yet Sein cannot stop filming. The Bamboo Familyis an intimate documentary about exile, inheritance, and the fragile bond between father and son, shaped by dictatorship and the urgent need to tell the truth.
From Script to Screen
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