Documentaries and short films about human rights, displacement and the environment. Co-directed Myanmar Diaries, Berlinale Documentary Award 2022.
Documentary, campaign and fiction work, 2014 – 2026.
A hybrid film about life under the regime of terror in Myanmar. Short films by ten young anonymous filmmakers of the Myanmar Film Collective, made after the military coup of 1 February 2021 as an act of creative resistance.
Human Rights Day campaign for the United Nations Information Centre, Yangon, published by UN in Myanmar. Other UNIC work: COVID-19 awareness, the UN75 campaign and child protection.
A love story, made in response to new censorship rules against respectful LGBT+ portrayals in Myanmar film.
Moe Thway and Generation Wave, the youth movement that grew out of the 2007 Saffron Revolution.
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The Shwe oil and gas pipelines run from Rakhine State to China. The film follows their impact on local communities and the environment.
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His first fiction feature. Production stopped after COVID-19 and the military coup. Screening and talk at Moviemento, Berlin 2022.
Brand film, documentary style, no AI.
Reifen sind das einzige Bindeglied zwischen Auto und Asphalt. Brand film for a tyre and car service shop in Munich.
For Myanmar Diaries, Across, Enter and other films.
"Lightning quick at the editing table. Gifted with a wonderful creativity, both in documentary and in fiction."
"Extremely cooperative and patient and most of all, astute."
"I can confidently vouch for his professionalism, work ethic, and diligence."
Born in Yangon. Kaung Sint started editing at 14.
In 2014 he joined the documentary workshop of the Human Dignity Film Institute, founded by filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi and mentored by Petr Lom and Corinne van Egeraat. Human rights became the centre of his work. He spent five years as Creative Director in Yangon's commercial industry and made campaigns for the United Nations Information Centre.
After the military coup of 1 February 2021, he was part of the Myanmar Film Collective, a group of anonymous young filmmakers who kept making films as an act of creative resistance. Their film Myanmar Diaries won the Berlinale Documentary Award in 2022.
The film's success made its makers a target. He left Myanmar with his wife and came to Berlin as an artist in residence of the BerlinAiR program. The work continues: in 2026 he directed a segment of the sequel to Myanmar Diaries, made by eight Myanmar and Dutch filmmakers.
Burmese (native) · English (C2) · German (B1)
Essays on film, written in Burmese. Translated, with the originals on each page.
Women editors did. Why the reaction shot matters.
ReadShoot with what you have, and take care of the sound.
ReadHow films show loss, or skip it. Written after the coup.
ReadPolitical cinema and guerrilla film units.
Read2025 – 2026, with honest AI labels.
