Biography

Sein Lyan Tun is a filmmaker from Myanmar, residing in Paris. His latest short film "Everybody's Gotta Love Sometimes" got selected in Busan International Film Festival 2023 under "Wide Angle Asian 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 some international competitions like the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Switzerland), Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont Ferrand (France), and Locarno Filmmakers Academy (Locarno). His documentary Unsilent Potato is well-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 2016 and the HosoBunka Foundation Prize in 2017 at Japan Prize. He is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents, Talents Tokyo, Locarno Filmmakers Academy. The Beer Girl In Yangon is his first feature film, which won two Development prizes from CNC and Swiss Films under Locarno Open Doors at Locarno Open Doors 2021. which was selected at Cannes L'atelier Cinéfondation 2022, Torino Feature Lab 2023. His first feature documentary The Bamboo Family which was selected at IDFA Academy and received IDFA development grants 2022, the Tan Ean Kiam Foundation-SGIFF Southeast Asian Documentary Grant (SEA-DOC) 2024. In 2023, selected to VdR-pitching forum and won "Cannes Docs Award" and "Doc Leipzig Award". In 2024, he founded "Dosiciné" to help Burmese young filmmakers in Myanmar in order to help their film project dossier.
- IMDb mini biography by: KingxBite