Rays of Hope explained

Rays of Hope
Native Name:
Director:	Ko Pauk
Studio:	Thaw Wunn Kyar Phyu Production
Runtime:	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
• , a 2023 Burmese anthology film
• Losing Ground, a 2023 Burmese short documentary film about young people in Yangon after the 2021 coup

Notes and References

1. News: ဒါရိုက်တာ ကိုပေါက်ရဲ့ ရောင်နီလာရာလမ်း မှတ်တမ်းရုပ်ရှင် ဖေဖေါ်ဝါရီတွင် စတင်ပြသမည်. 27 December 2023. The Voice of Spring. 8 January 2023. Burmese.
2. News: 'မသောက်မိသောမိုးခါးရေ' ဇာတ်ကားတွင် ပါဝင်ကြသည့် ရဲဘော်များအား ဂုဏ်ပြု. 27 December 2023. Karen Information Center. 27 December 2022. Burmese. အလားတူ တော်လှန်ရေးနှစ်နှစ်ပြည့်အဖြစ် ဒါရိုက်တာကိုပေါက်၏ တော်လှန်ရေးဘဝ နှစ်နှစ်တာ ဖြတ်သန်းမှုကိုရိုက်ကူးထားသော ‘ရောင်နီလာရာလမ်း’ ဟူသည့် မှတ်တမ်းရုပ်ရှင်အား ၂၀၂၃ ခုနှစ် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ....
3. News: Nway Oo Pyi Thu. Myanmar's Spring Revolution News – March 02 (Morning). 27 December 2023. Daily Radio News. March 2, 2023.
4. News: 'Rays of Hope' documentary earns nearly 1000-lakh kyats from first screening in Japan. 27 December 2023. Burma News International. 6 February 2023.
5. News: Mohinga Matters. Showtime for the Resistance: Revolutionary films screening worldwide. 27 December 2023. DVB. Democratic Voice of Burma. 28 April 2023. After the screening, Ko Pauk performed a live concert vowing to continue the fight against the military..
6. News: Tan. Lincoln. Myanmar chaos and amazing Chinese faces: Two doco films screening this Sunday open windows into different worlds. 27 December 2023. The New Zealand Herald. NZME Publishing Limited. 2 November 2022.
7. News: DVB. 'ရောင်နီလာရာလမ်း' တော်လှန်ရေးမှတ်တမ်းရုပ်ရှင် နိုင်ငံတကာ မြို့ကြီး ၅ မြို့တွင် ပြသမည်. 27 December 2023. DVB. Democratic Voice of Burma. 4 February 2023. Burmese. မြန်မာ့နွေဦးတော်လှန်ရေးအတွက် ရန်ပုံငွေရှာဖွေနိုင်ဖို့ ဖန်တီးရိုက်ကူးထားတဲ့ ဒီကားကိုတော့ ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံမြို့တော် တိုကျို၊....
8. Web site: ရောင်နီလာရာလမ်း. ဖေဖေါ်ဝါရီလ ၁၈ရက်နေ့က. Facebook. Meta Platforms, Inc.. 27 December 2023. Burmese. 19 February 2023.