My Name Is Salt

Mar 13 2015 N/A 1h 32m
Documentary

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.

Plot

Year after year, for an endless eight months, thousands of families move to a desert in India to extract salt from the burning earth. Every monsoon their salt fields are washed away, as the desert turns into sea. And still they return, taking pride in producing the whitest salt in the world.

Written by

Farida Pacha

Directed by

Farida Pacha

Cast

Chhanabhai Bababhai Pagi, Devuben Chhanabhai Pagi, Guhabhai Lakshmanbhai Rathod

Crew

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Production Countries

India, Switzerland

Production Companies

Leafbird Films

Languages

Awards

15 wins & 11 nominations

Trailers
LA Film Festival (2014) - My Name is Salt Trailer - Documentary HD
Scores
# of Votes
321
Average Rating
7.7 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
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