My Name Is Salt (2013)

11/24/2013 (CH) • Documentary • 1h 32m

Overview

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 spent a season with one of these families, observing the very particular rhythms of their lives.

My Name Is Salt (2013)

11/24/2013 (CH) • 1h 32m

Documentary

Overview

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 spent a season with one of these families, observing the very particular rhythms of their lives.

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Status

Released

Original Language

Gujarati

Budget

-

Revenue

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Keywords

woman director

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