A Thousand Fires

Name: A Thousand Fires
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 7.7

2021 · 90 min

Documentary

★ 7.7

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Using their bare hands, married couple Htwe Tin and Thein Shwe draw oil from a pit they drilled themselves on the land next to their house. There are lots of these “artisanal” oilfields dotted around Myanmar, where people have swapped crop cultivation for selling the oil they pump from the ground by hand.

Crew

Director Saeed Taji Farouky
Writer Saeed Taji Farouky
Director of Photography Saeed Taji Farouky
Director of Photography Joshua Min Htut

Crew

Director — Saeed Taji Farouky
Writer — Saeed Taji Farouky
Director of Photography — Saeed Taji Farouky
Director of Photography — Joshua Min Htut

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🔥 Hot takes

warming up the wall…

Intermission

GO DEEPER

Turn the obscurity dial up. There's a lot further down to go.

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