My name is salt

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Movie
Original title My name is salt
Country of production Switzerland ,
India
original language German
Publishing year 2013
length 92 minutes
Rod
Director Farida Pacha
script Farida Pacha
production Lutz Konermann ,
Farida Pacha
music Marcel Vaid
camera Lutz Konermann
cut Katharina Fiedler
Salt worker in the Rann of Kachchh

My Name Is Salt is an Indo-Swiss documentary by Farida Pacha , which accompanies the Indian salt farmers in the extraction of the " white gold " in the Rann swamp in the north-western state of Gujarat . The film premiered on September 24, 2013 at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam . In Switzerland, the film opened in cinemas on September 18, 2014, and in Germany on November 12, 2015.

content

Every September, 40,000 salt workers move into the Rann von Kachchh , a temporarily flooded salt marsh on the southern section of the border between India and Pakistan, to mine salt for eight months. There is hardly anything other than salt on 5,000 km². It comes from the annual floods in summer when the barren landscape is turned into a sea by the monsoons.

In order to produce as white and clear salt as possible, the workers sometimes work far apart, so that communication is only possible with the help of sun reflections on mirrors. Once a week, people are supplied with water from a truck. The equipment for the salt extraction is expensive, people like Sanabhai, who lives here with his wife Devuben and their two children, have to take out a loan. They dig deep holes that fill with groundwater. Then the salt is extracted in laborious work.

criticism

The film service judges that the “lyrical documentary film” reproduces the “laborious, hard-working activity” with “painterly images, a meditative cut and a subtle musical background”. It goes on to say: "The splendid cinema painting therefore not only grants fascinating insights into a hidden world, but also pays homage to the unbroken romanticizing unity of man and work, culture and nature."

Awards

The film received a lot of international attention, was shown at numerous film festivals and received a total of 12 awards with a total of 24 nominations. It has been honored as best documentary in Edinburgh , Madrid and Hong Kong , among others . He also received honors in Amsterdam (First Appearance) and Mexico City (special mention). The German cameraman Lutz Konermann won the 2014 German Camera Prize in the Documentary Film category and the Cinematography Award at the Budapest International Documentary Festival .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed April 11, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Stefan Volk: My Name Is Salt. In: Filmdienst . Retrieved on April 11, 2016 (short review; 23/2015).
  3. ↑ a b Awards. Internet Movie Database, accessed April 11, 2016 .