Year after year, just after the monsoon season has finished, thousands of families travel to a bleak desert in Gujerat, India, where they will stay for an endless eight months and extract salt from the earth, using the same painstaking, manual techniques as generations before them. Director Farida Pacha and cinematographer Lutz Konermann spent a season with one of these families, observing the very particular rhythms of their lives and crafting an exquisite, lyrical film in the process. Main Info: Director: Farida Pacha Production: Leafbird Films GmbH Format: Made for Cinema Runtime: 58/92 min Category: Documentary Language: Gujarati Subtitled Versions: English, French, German, Spanish Country: Switzerland, India Year: 2013 Genre: Human Interest, People & Society, Nature, Culture Broadcaster: YLE Selected Festivals & Awards: - „IDFA Award for First Appearance“ Int’l Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (2013) - „Best Documentary Feature Film“ Edingburgh Int’l Film Festival (2014) - „Firebird Award“ 38. Hong Kong Int’l Film Festival (2014) - „German Camera Award“ Deutscher Kamerapreis (2014) - „First Price of the Jury“ Documenta Madrid (2014) - „Competition“ Los Angeles Film Festival (2014) - „Competition“ Melbourne Int’l Film Festival (2014) - „Competition“ Message to Men St. Petersburg (2014) Sales Contact: info@magnetfilm.de / www.magnetfilm.de
