Shin Thandar
I Found my Yellow
Two Women and a Cat Learning to be Family
Year:
2024
Length:
15 min
Country:
Myanmar
Language:
Burmese
Director:
Shin Thandar
SYNOPSIS
Two women, Shin and Susan, and one cat, Shwe Lone Chay, are slowly learning to be a family unit, lovingly accepting each other’s insecurities. In the face of the current LGBTQIA+ repression in Myanmar, same-sex marriage, for the time being, remains a faraway dream.
about the director
Shin Thandar (born in 1991) is from Sittwe in Rakhine State in northwest Myanmar. She studied English at Yangon’s University of Foreign Languages and then joined Yangon Film School in 2018 for two years. Made in her second year at YFS, Worlds Apart portrays a Hindu couple in restive Rakhine State and won a Goethe-Institut Ruby Documentary Award in 2019. Her first documentary as a director, Lost Boy, was shown at a number of international film festivals around the world.
