Kaung Sint Tha was born in Yangon. He started editing at 14, taught by his eldest brother. 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 center of his work.
1 February 2021The military staged a coup in Myanmar. Kaung Sint was part of the Myanmar Film Collective, a group of anonymous young filmmakers who kept making films after the coup as an act of creative resistance. Together with the producers Petr Lom and Corinne van Egeraat, they made Myanmar Diaries, a hybrid film about life under the regime of terror in Myanmar. In 2022 it won the Berlinale Documentary Award.
2022The film's success made its makers a target. Kaung Sint left Myanmar with his wife and came to Berlin as an artist in residence of the BerlinAiR program. Later, they decided to apply for political protection in Germany. The work continues with the sequel to Myanmar Diaries.