Films

FILMS

Kirana works with local organizations to amplify the voices of communities affected by social inequity, discrimination, and human rights abuses.

We produce films that are tools for change.

Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar

2025

Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar follows four democracy revolutionaries who are finding creative means to fight against the military junta.

Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar

2025

2022

He Had Wings

2022

He Had Wings

A film about the artist Ronnie Goodman, homelessness, and the streets of San Francisco.

2021

Padauk: Myanmar Spring

2021

2021

Padauk: Myanmar Spring

Padauk: Myanmar Spring takes the viewer to the streets of Myanmar during the heady days following the February 2021 military coup. Through Nant—a young, first-time protester—we meet three human rights activists whose lives have been turned upside down by the coup.

2019

Better Homes, Better Lives

Meet Daw Nwet Yin Win ("Yin"). As the dynamo at the heart of a women's empowerment project supported by Community Partners International in Burma's Irrawaddy Delta, she travels by boat to isolated communities to help women lead change.

2019

Better Homes, Better Lives

2018

Mother, Daughter, Sister

2018

Mother, Daughter, Sister

Mother, Daughter, Sister (Amae, Thamee, Ama) exposes the Burmese military’s practice of using rape as a weapon of war and gives voice to Kachin and Rohingya women activists calling for justice for these crimes.

2017

Sittwe

Sittwe is about two teenagers separated by conflict and segregation in Burma's Rakhine state, Phyu Phyu Than, a Rohingya girl and Aung San Myint, a Buddhist boy. Both youth saw their homes burned down during communal violence in 2012.

2017

Sittwe

2015

This Kind of Love

This Kind of Love follows Burmese human rights and LGBT activist, Aung Myo Min, as he returns home after 24 years in exile. Set against Myanmar's historical transition from half a century of brutal military rule, Myo shares his vision for equality for all .

2015

This Kind of Love

2014

Father & Son Artists

2014

Father & Son Artists

The story of a Ronnie Goodman Junior and Senior, a father and son who shared an artistic vision, the tragedy of losing Ronnie Goodman Junior at age 20, and what this meant for Ronnie Goodman Senior and the community.

2012

Into the Current

2012

Into the Current

Into the Current: Burma’s Political Prisoners is about Bo Kyi, a former political prisoner who works to free his colleagues in Burma against the backdrop of the country’s non-violent political movement.