HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival presents Thabyay, a documentary film portraying four activists and their artistic approach to resistance against military rule. Through poetry, music and paintings, the activists express their dream of a peaceful, democratic and free Myanmar.
After the film, there will be a conversation between two generations of Burmese activists. Maung Maung Myint came to Norway after the bloody suppression of the student uprising in 1988. Since then, he has helped establish the news channel DVB, contributed to the solidarity movement for Myanmar, and is today the Norwegian representative of the democratic National Unity Government. Tayza Naing is a Norwegian Burmese rap artist who experienced a political awakening when his parents' homeland in 2021 again fell into dictatorship, after several years of openness.
How do these two activists see the possibilities for democracy and peace in Myanmar? How can art and activism contribute to the resistance movement?
The conversation will be led by Marte Nilsen, Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo and Co-director of the PRIO Centre on Culture, Conflict and Coexistence.
Tickets are available at the HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival: https://humanfilm.no/film/thabyay-creative-resistance-in-myanmar/
