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Release Date:
November 24, 2013
Original Title:
My Name Is Salt
Alternate Titles:
Sól tej ziemi
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Leafbird Films
Production Countries:
India | Switzerland
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 92
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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Cinematography:
Lutz Konermann
Director:
Farida Pacha
Editor:
Lutz Konermann
Music:
Farida Pacha
Producer:
Farida Pacha
Lutz Konermann
Writer:
Farida Pacha
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