Sein Lyan Tun
DirectorYulia Bhara
ProducerMyanmar, Indonesia
CountryLogline
When her father is arrested for political activism, Lily (17) has to work in the beer station in Yangon where she falls in love with the karaoke singer (Moon) and a mysterious older man (Zaw) while dealing with her swinging menstruation hallucination mood.
Short Synopsis
When her father is arrested for political activism, Lily (17) has to work in the beer station serving beer to customers. She immediately gets involved romantically with the karaoke singer named Moon. Lily has an acute endometriosis (painful menstruation) where she suffers but at the same time transporting her into another universe that gives her strength and voice that she never has in real life. In this other universe, she always encounters a mysterious older man that raises her curiosity until this man appears in real life at the beer station as her customer. She starts to build a platonic relationship with him that causes a complication with her relationship with Moon. With the constant pressure falling into prostitution, Lily has to find a way out or to escape the grim faith in front of her by trying to keep her dreams alive to become a singer.
Sein Lyan Tun
Sein Lyan Tun is a filmmaker from Myanmar, currently based in Paris at the Récollets. His latest short film Everybody’s Gotta Love Sometimes (2023) was selected at Wide Angle of the Busan International Film Festival and received a Special Mention from the Sonje Award jury members. Also his short film Late Blooming In A Lonely Summer Day (2021) has been selected in various international competitions such as Winterthur International Short Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, and Locarno Film Festival. The Beer Girl In Yangon (2024) is his first feature film project, which was part of Open Doors at Locarno Film Festival 2021, 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.
Yulia Bhara
KawanKawan Media is a production company based in Jakarta, Indonesia.