Lin Htet Aung (1998) is a self-taught filmmaker from Myanmar. He began with avant-garde poetry before transitioning to filmmaking in 2017. His short films have been selected at several international film festivals, including the New York Film Festival and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and have won several awards, including the Tiger Short Award at IFFR. An alumnus of TIFF Directors’ Lab, Berlinale Talents, Locarno Filmmakers Academy, Asian Film Academy, and a Prince Claus Seed Awardee 2023, he is now developing his debut feature, Making A Sea. After the coup in 2021, he joined the CDM (Civil Disobedience Movement) for his engineering studies in Myanmar, and is currently studying at Städelschule art School, Germany.
Lin Htet Aung
Lin Htet Aung participated in “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025, a first-ever poll of its kind as a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image. yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, in collaboration with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, distributors, critics, and scholars worldwide to nominate 10 audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. This was Lin Htet Aung’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
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| Tremors Drzenia | Dawid Bodzak | Poland | 2017 | 21’ | ||
A masterful craft of mysterious happenings, but not far away from the characters in a short film. |
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| Wavelength | Michael Snow | Canada, USA | 1967 | 45’ | ||
A good example of an experimental short film. |
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| Cross My Heart and Hope to Die | Sam Manacsa | Philippines | 2023 | 17’ | ||
A perfect plot twist in a short film and a masterful work of building the world in a short. |
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| Blue ตะวันดับ | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | France | 2018 | 12’ | ||
A beautiful short film. |
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| Mobile Men | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand | 2008 | 4’ | ||
A beautiful short film containing all. |
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| Motorcycle Driver 摩托車伕 | Midi Z | Myanmar, Taiwan | 2008 | 27’ | ||
A masterful short film. |
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| The Horse | Charles Burnett | USA | 1973 | 14’ | ||
| Two | Satyajit Ray | India | 1965 | 12’ | ||
A simple but great. |
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| The Cage Ori | Shûji Terayama | Japan | 1964 | 10’ | ||
| She Runs | Qiu Yang | China, France | 2019 | 20’ | ||