To School

Direced by Soe Moe Aung

Eleven-year-old Yarzar wants nothing more than to go to school. But growing up in rural poverty with an absentee father and a mother who works her fingers to the bone, Yarzar is needed at home to catch eels to sell at market and to work in the paddy fields. He saves every kyat he can to achieve his dream, doubling his efforts when his little brother announces that he wants to go to school too. But disaster strikes when the family’s hut is hit by a cyclone. The film is inspired by the real-life children the screenwriter encountered in the remote village of Apyauk where the story is set – where education plays an essential role in helping to try and combat poverty in the next generation.