Sai Naw Kham made his first foray into directing in 2014 whilst a beginner student at Yangon Film School with The Crocodile Creek, a short film that merged myth and memory to explore present-day environmental issues in Myanmar’s Yangon River. For his next film, 32 Souls (YFS, 2015), he travelled to his native Shan to portray one woman’s memories in this war-torn part of Myanmar. Following its international premiere at DOK Leipzig in 2016, this film went on to screen to acclaim at festivals including Busan and at Kathmandu’s Film South Asia Festival in Nepal. In 2020, he directed a short film, The Forgotten Voices of the Mekong, which was screened at numerous festivals as part of an anthology film entitled Mekong 2030. Song of Souls is his first feature-length documentary.