A Myanmar filmmaker based in Yangon. In 2013, Lamin and his childhood friends started Tagu Films - a film production company focusing on producing documentaries and short films. Over the decade, Lamin has collaborated with local and international filmmakers on an array of stories about Myanmar and its people. His main interest is in telling deeply personal and human stories with a pinch of humour.
A Peaceful Land
A Peaceful Land
A Peaceful Land
Synopsis
In 2005, Myanmar’s military government launched a radical biodiesel campaign, forcing farmers to plant Physic Nut trees under threat of land confiscation and forced labor. Defying the junta’s oppression, four farmers from Nat Mauk risk everything to fight for their rights in a powerful story of resistance and loss.
Festivals & Awards
2015 Vaclav Havel Awards, Human Rights Human Dignity IFF
Director's Profile
Lamin Oo
Filmography
2014 Homework
2015 A Peaceful Land
2015 The Special One
2021 Three Strangers
2023 Ten Years Myanmar: The Act of Kissing
Sai Kong Kham
Born in 1985, Sai Kong Kham began working as a sound engineer at various radio stations in Myanmar, and he decided to pursue a career in filmmaking and enrolled at Yangon Film School in 2011. His debut documentary, Sweetie Pie, went on to screen at a number of international film festivals including Visions du réel, and the Sehsüchte student film festival in Germany. He founded the film production company Tagu Films with fellow Yangon Film School alumnus Khin Maung Kyaw, and is a regular creator of documentaries and shorts, several of which have won awards.
Filmography
2011 Sweetie Pie
2013 This Land is Our Land
2014 Dar doe myay
2015 A Peaceful Land
2017 Train
2023 Mental Landscape
Shown in...
Lamin Oo Shorts