A Thousand Fires (2021)
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 βartisanalβ oilfields dotted around Myanmar, where people have swapped crop cultivation for selling the oil they pump from the ground by hand.
