Summary
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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Critics vs audiences
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Audiences 70GoodWatch 72
IMDb7.0
Letterboxd · 208 ratings3.5/5
Running time
1 h 30 min
A typical length for documentaries, −6 min on the typical 96
typical 9690Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 80 countries
+70Released
2021
August 6, 2021
5 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
Burmese
Original language
Made in
France
Netherlands
Palestinian Territories
Switzerland
Directing · 1
- Saeed Taji Farouky Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Production · 5
- Estelle Robin-You Producer
- Mohamed Elmongy Co-Producer
- Palmyre Badinier Co-Producer
- Joram Willink Co-Producer
- May Odeh Associate Producer
Camera · 1
- Joshua Min Htut Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Catherine Rascon Editor
Sound · 1
- Fatima Dunn Original Music Composer
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