Rays of Hope

Rays of Hope
Burmese	ရောင်နီလာရာလမ်း
Directed by	Ko Pauk
Written by	Ko Pauk
Production company	Thaw Wunn Kyar Phyu Production
Release date	February 4, 2023 (2023-02-04) (Japan)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	Myanmar
Language	Burmese

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]

The film was screened in Japan on 4 February 2023.[4]

Production

Ko 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

Rays 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

• 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

1. "ဒါရိုက်တာ ကိုပေါက်ရဲ့ ရောင်နီလာရာလမ်း မှတ်တမ်းရုပ်ရှင် ဖေဖေါ်ဝါရီတွင် စတင်ပြသမည်". The Voice of Spring (in Burmese). 8 January 2023. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
2. "'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...
3. Nway Oo Pyi Thu (March 2, 2023). "Myanmar's Spring Revolution News – March 02 (Morning)". Daily Radio News. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
4. "'Rays of Hope' documentary earns nearly 1000-lakh kyats from first screening in Japan". Burma News International. 6 February 2023. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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၊...
8. ရောင်နီလာရာလမ်း (19 February 2023). "ဖေဖေါ်ဝါရီလ ၁၈ရက်နေ့က". Facebook (in Burmese). Meta Platforms, Inc. Retrieved 27 December 2023.