Myanmar Diaries (Burmese: မြန်မာဒိုင်ယာရီ), is a 2022 Burmese-Dutch-Norwegian collage film documenting the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, which led to nationwide protests, a brutal crackdown, and the ongoing civil war,[2] The film is a series of short films, some of which feature fictional stories or reenactments of true events, directed by the Myanmar Film Collective, an anonymous group of ten[3] young Burmese filmmakers.
[6] Myanmar Diaries was first screened in the "Panorama" section of the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival on 13 February 2022.
[8] Phuong Le, writing for The Guardian in the United Kingdom, gave the film four out of five stars, praising it as a "powerful" and "gut-punching" testament to the violence of the military coup.
[9] Lee Marshall of Screen Daily also expressed enthusiasm for the film, albeit with reservations for the fictional segments, stating that it "lacks a unifying narrative and is something of an uneven assortment....
But taken as a whole, Myanmar Diaries is both an urgent denunciation of human rights abuses and a thought-provoking work of art".