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EVERYBODY’S GOTTA LOVE SOMETIMES
​​​​by Sein Lyan Tun​

15min | France/Myanmar/Indonesia | 2023

Two months after fleeing Myanmar and arriving in Paris, Phyo, whose status is uncertain, dreams of romance with another man.
He dances freely with a sensual dancer in front of the Pont Neuf bridge, but trauma and desire become a trap.
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French Title Sur Les Quais Nous Irons Danser
Year of production 2023
Length 15'
Country France/Myanmar/Indonesia​
Shooting Format HD​
Aspect Ratio 16:9
Dialogue English, French, Burmese
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Director Sein Lyan Tun
Producers Angèle de Lorme, John Badalu
Production Panorama
Assistant Director César de Lorme
Cinematographer Robin Pogorzelski
Unit Production Manager Axelle Sourisse
Editor Ella Dixon
Original Music Tôn Thât An, Delphine Malaussena
Sound Design and Sound Mix Stephane Debien
Production Coordinator Errol Trevianski
Production Designer / Costume Designer Leïla Macaire
Choreography Joséphine Meunier
​Cast Ko Latt, Alexandre Nadra, Deyn Natthakhet Yaemim, Béatrice Roy, Wilfried Sandjo
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Festival selections
​Busan International Film Festival 2023, South Korea -  World Premiere, Special Mention
Seoul International PRIDE Film Festival 2023, South Korea
Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival 2023, Indonesia
Bangkok ASEAN Film Festival 2023, Thailand
CinemAsia Film Festival 2024, Netherlands
​Landshut Short Film Festival 2024, Germany
​Queer East Festival 2024, UK
Lovers Film Festival 2024, Italy
KASHISH Pride Film Festival 2024, India
ZINEGOAK - Bilbao International LGBT Film Festival 2024, Spain
Rio Lgbtqia+ - Festival Internacional de Cinema 2024, Brazil
Thailand International LGBTQ+ Film and TV Festival 2024 - First Runner-up Award
​Sentiero Film Factory 2024, Italy
​Everybody's Perfect - Geneva International Queer Film Festival 2024, Switzerland
Film Front International Short Film Festival 2024, Serbia
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Caminhos Film Festival 2024, Portugal
Ljubljana ​LGBT Film Festival 2024, Slovenia

Director's Statement
When I was in secondary school, I was always afraid to go to the school toilet alone.
My school mates always followed me with a nice talk but when no one was around, they started to humiliate me. They tied me up, grabbed my waist from behind and started simulating anal sex and forced me to do oral sex.
This situation put me in a deep stress and uncomfortable situation as à teenager. The trauma left me with difficulty being in love with someone or never getting intimacy with someone. Whenever I am in a love mood, this horrible memory appears in my head. I have the voices in my head. The voices always make me crazy. I always think of the strange feeling that no one would understand me.I always wonder if I am abroad and I will explore my sexual desire as I wish. But when I arrived in Paris, I could not get over all the trauma. The situation that I’m facing right now is that I feel alone as a creature who migrated to another country where I never felt I belonged.
I want to make this story almost like a true story from my life with my observation of migrant people who are living in Paris.
It's a story of a guy who has trauma in his past and begins to
explore his sexuality in a new environment. As an southeast asian filmmaker especially coming from Myanmar is the most challenging to make a film in Paris.
At first, I even had an idea to make a short film in Paris but I am not sure I can make it into a film because of many difficulties such as the location that I want to shoot, the budget that we have to look for etc. After I pitched my story to my producer Angele and developed my story with John, I finally made it into film.
Apart from me, my actor from Myanmar who lives now in Lyon and my producer John Badalu, the whole crew are French artists who are willing to support me on my project. They believe in my project. They only work for me with love and passion. I am so proud and so happy. This film became an important part of my life.
​Even Though the story is dealing with trauma with my past abusive life, I portray the lack of sex and love life combination of reality and fantasy. This is my very first time experiencing working with such a professional artist in my filmmaking life. This film is dedicated to people who has been dealing with sexual abuse and trauma which can not easily to get rid of from their mind. I have already made this film, I have been open about my abusive life from the teenage past, but I still hear those abusive voices in my head, until now.
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