MYANMAR DIARIES is built up of short films by ten young anonymous Burmese filmmakers, combined with emotionally harrowing citizen journalism documenting the junta’s brutality, as well as courageous resistance to it. The film shows how Myanmar goes from the military coup to nation-wide protests and civil disobedience, to barbaric repression where thousands of peaceful protesters are imprisoned and murdered, to a growing popular armed revolt against this monstrous military junta.

Moving organically back and forth between documentary and fiction, the film offers a seamless flow in which the filmmakers find innovative creative ways to keep their protagonists anonymous. An extremely urgent film in a time when Myanmar has almost disappeared from the news headlines around the world.

The Myanmar Film Collective (MFC) is a group of young Burmese filmmakers – both men and women – which in such extraordinary difficult times in their country continue their work, as an act of creative resistance against the military regime. For their own safety, the group has chosen to remain anonymous, for thousands are being arrested and murdered for resisting the military regime, and those in the creative industries are being targeted as well.

Filmography: 2022 MYANMAR DIARIES

Awards: Berlinale Documentary Award (Berlin International Film Festival, Germany 2022)