Rays of Hope (Burmese: ရောင်နီလာရာလမ်း) is a 2023 Burmese autobiographical documentary film directed by Ko Pauk which documents his life as an artist-turned-revolutionary during the Myanmar civil war.[1][2][3]
| Rays of Hope | |
|---|---|
| Burmese | ရောင်နီလာရာလမ်း |
| Directed by | Ko Pauk |
| Written by | Ko Pauk |
Production company | Thaw Wunn Kyar Phyu Production |
Release date |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | Myanmar |
| Language | Burmese |
The film was screened in Japan on 4 February 2023.[4]
Production
editKo Pauk, a filmmaker, illustrator and musician,[5] produced Rays of Hope after making his short documentary film titled The Road Not Taken.[6][4] Pauk's intention for the film is to raise funds for the Myanmar Spring Revolution.[7]
Release
editRays of Hope was screened in a theater in Tokyo, Japan on 4 February 2023, with a reporter from NHK praising it as a "priceless film that should be recorded and preserved in world history."[4] On 18 February, the film was screened in the United States in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana at a theater along Madison Avenue, with National Unity Government (NUG) Deputy Prime Minister Moe Zaw Oo and Foreign Minister Zin Mar Aung in attendance.[8] It was later screened in Perth, Australia on 11 March at the Canning Town Hall.[3]
See also
edit- Myanmar Diaries, a 2022 Burmese collage film about the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état
- Broken Dreams: Stories from the Myanmar Coup, a 2023 Burmese anthology film
- Losing Ground, a 2023 Burmese short documentary film about young people in Yangon after the 2021 coup
References
edit- ^ "ဒါရိုက်တာ ကိုပေါက်ရဲ့ ရောင်နီလာရာလမ်း မှတ်တမ်းရုပ်ရှင် ဖေဖေါ်ဝါရီတွင် စတင်ပြသမည်". The Voice of Spring (in Burmese). 8 January 2023. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
- ^ "'မသောက်မိသောမိုးခါးရေ' ဇာတ်ကားတွင် ပါဝင်ကြသည့် ရဲဘော်များအား ဂုဏ်ပြု". Karen Information Center (in Burmese). 27 December 2022. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
အလားတူ တော်လှန်ရေးနှစ်နှစ်ပြည့်အဖြစ် ဒါရိုက်တာကိုပေါက်၏ တော်လှန်ရေးဘဝ နှစ်နှစ်တာ ဖြတ်သန်းမှုကိုရိုက်ကူးထားသော 'ရောင်နီလာရာလမ်း' ဟူသည့် မှတ်တမ်းရုပ်ရှင်အား ၂၀၂၃ ခုနှစ် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ...
- ^ a b Nway Oo Pyi Thu (March 2, 2023). "Myanmar's Spring Revolution News – March 02 (Morning)". Daily Radio News. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
- ^ a b c "'Rays of Hope' documentary earns nearly 1000-lakh kyats from first screening in Japan". Burma News International. 6 February 2023. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
- ^ Mohinga Matters (28 April 2023). "Showtime for the Resistance: Revolutionary films screening worldwide". DVB. Democratic Voice of Burma. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
After the screening, Ko Pauk performed a live concert vowing to continue the fight against the military.
- ^ Tan, Lincoln (2 November 2022). "Myanmar chaos and amazing Chinese faces: Two doco films screening this Sunday open windows into different worlds". The New Zealand Herald. NZME Publishing Limited. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
- ^ DVB (4 February 2023). "'ရောင်နီလာရာလမ်း' တော်လှန်ရေးမှတ်တမ်းရုပ်ရှင် နိုင်ငံတကာ မြို့ကြီး ၅ မြို့တွင် ပြသမည်". DVB (in Burmese). Democratic Voice of Burma. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
မြန်မာ့နွေဦးတော်လှန်ရေးအတွက် ရန်ပုံငွေရှာဖွေနိုင်ဖို့ ဖန်တီးရိုက်ကူးထားတဲ့ ဒီကားကိုတော့ ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံမြို့တော် တိုကျို၊...
- ^ ရောင်နီလာရာလမ်း (19 February 2023). "ဖေဖေါ်ဝါရီလ ၁၈ရက်နေ့က". Facebook (in Burmese). Meta Platforms, Inc. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
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