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A Thousand Fires

7.7(3)20211h 30m1

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.

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Released
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Language
Burmese

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Produced in

France, Netherlands, Palestinian Territory, Switzerland

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  • SwitzerlandCH

    • PremiereLocarno Film Festival - Semaine de la critique6 Aug 2021

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A Thousand Fires was released on 6 August 2021.

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