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A THOUSAND FIRES

By Saeed TAJI FAROUKY

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Documentary - Completed 2021

A Thousand Fires is a portrait of a family in flflux, and a story of in- tergenerational conflflict and compromise.

Festivals
& Awards

Locarno 2021

Semaine de la Critique - Marco Zucchi Award for the most innovative film

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, NETHERLANDS
- Languages
- BURMESE
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Saeed TAJI FAROUKY
- Producer(s)
- Estelle ROBIN YOU (POINT DU JOUR), Palmyre BADINIER (AKKA FILMS), Joram WILLINK (BIND)
- Synopsis
- In the Magway region of Myanmar, a country home to one of the oldest petrole- um industries in the world, live husband and wife Thein Shwe and Htwe Tin. Running an unregulated oil fifield, they produce a barrel every few days. They wish above all else to see their youngest son succeed, to break the cycle of poverty. A kettle boils. Mud slicked hands work sputtering machines. The am- bient sound of a football match hums from a nearby television. “These days passed quickly”, Htwe says.
  
  From Palestinian-British fifilmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky, A Thousand Fires is a portrait of a family in flflux, and a story of in- tergenerational conflflict and compromise. It is a fifilm of transient moments; of hopes and aspirations; of faith in the forces of karma and luck; of a place, a community, and the rhythms of a day to day; of lingering mem- ories and a turbulent past; and of life per- sisting, regardless.
  
  A life hard fought for, a stillness earned. The days pass quickly.