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Child of the Revolution (2018)

Child of the Revolution

Synopsis

For over sixty years, the Karen National Union was at war with the Burmese military, known as Tatmadaw. In this elegiac portrait a young Karen woman reflects on her family’s years of struggle during the conflict in Myanmar’s south-east and looks ahead to the challenges of securing lasting peace.

Director's Biography

Aye Nilar Kyaw is Karen (Kayin) and a Christian. She took up a distance learning degree in law at West Yangon University in 2012 and worked in various jobs, also volunteering for NGO Vision Trust Myanmar, before enrolling at YFS in 2016 where she worked on several films as editor, cinematographer and sound designer (Through Thick and Thin). Child of the Revolution, which received the 2017 Goethe Institut Myanmar Jade Documentary Award, was her first film as both director and cinematographer. Made with support from YFS, her 2023 film Searching for Frogs takes us to a village inhabited by the Maw Nway Bwar who are the last people in Myanmar to practice rituals around the ‘frog drum’.

Screenings

September, 2023
Kriti Film Club
Online Screening on Doculive
India
August, 2018
Forum For Peace - People in Need
Yangon, Myanmar

Director's Filmography

2023
Searching for Frogs

Director/Cinematographer

43‘30‘‘

2020

Co-Director

16‘24‘‘

2018
Child of the Revolution

Director/Cinematographer

16‘54‘‘

2017

16‘28‘‘

Pictures

Child of Revolution YFS 1
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Child of Revolution YFS 3
Child of Revolution YFS 4
Child of Revolution YFS 5