A Thousand Fires (2021)

Name: A Thousand Fires
Released: 2021-08-06
Rating: 3.9

2021-08-06 • 90 min • ⭐ 7.7/10

Title: A Thousand Fires

Original Title: A Thousand Fires

Release Date: 2021-08-06

Status: Released

Rating: 7.7/10 (from 3 votes)

Language: MY

Genres: Documentary

Production Companies: Point du Jour, Les Films du Balibari, Akka Films, BIND

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.