
About the Author
Sein Lyan Tun is a filmmaker from Myanmar, currently residing in Paris. His latest short film “One Tropical Rain Of Love And Guilt” got selected in Clermont-Ferrand International short film festival 2026. His short film “Everybody’s Gotta Love Sometimes” got selected in Busan International Film Festival 2023 under “Wide Angle Asia Short Film Official Competition” and won “Sonje Special Mention Award”. Also his short film Late Blooming In A Lonely Summer Day has been selected in the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont Ferrand, and Locarno Filmmakers Academy. His documentary Unsilent Potato is recognized in Myanmar and Southeast Asia. He also directed and co-produced the TV documentaries: Border Boy, We Are Nuns, Dream Over Monsoon for Inside Lens, NHK World’s new documentary strand. His documentary For Me And Others Like Me won the Docs Spirit Award from Docs Port Incheon in and the HosoBunka Foundation Prize at Japan Prize. He is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents, Locarno Filmmaker Academy, IDFA Academy, Talents Tokyo and BAFA fellowship. The Beer Girl In Yangon is his first feature film, which was part of Open Doors at Locarno Film Festival, selected at Cannes L′atelier Cinéfondation 2022 and Torino Film Lab 2023. His first feature documentary The Bamboo Family received IDFA Development Grants in 2022 and The Tan Ean Kiam Foundation SGIFF Southeast Asian Documentary (SEA-DOC) Grant in 2024. It won the Cannes Docs Award and the DOK Leipzig Award at VdR-Pitching 2023. In 2024, he founded “Dosiciné” to help Burmese young filmmakers in Myanmar in order to help their film projects.
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.
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