NNHS invites you to the screening of the film, ‘My Name is Salt’, this September, 2020
Date and Time: 11-13 September, 2020 (48 hours, 6 pm-6 pm)
Film: My Name is Salt, Switzerland/ India, 2013
Director: Farida Pacha
Duration: 92 minutes
Film type: Documentary (with English subtitles)
Produced by: Leafbird Films
Homepage: www.mynameissalt.com
SYNOPSIS
The desert extends endlessly – flat, grey, relentless. There is not a tree or blade of grass or rock. But there is one thing in abundance: salt. Salt is everywhere, lying just beneath the cracked, baked surface of the earth. This is the Little Rann of Kutch, 5000 sqkms of saline desert in India. And for eight months of the year, Chhanabhai and his family live here without water, electricity or provisions – tirelessly extracting salt from this desolate landscape. Under the blinding glare of the sun, they work on the salt fields until large crystals have formed. Their labour is rhythmic, a dance that mirrors the dance of the mirages on the burning horizon. After months of hard work, the salt is ready to be harvested – just before the heavy monsoon rains will come to once again wash their salt fields away.
CREDITS
written and directed by Farida Pacha
cinematography Lutz Konermann
editing Katharina Fiedler
location sound Sanjeev Gupta, Ramesh Birajdar
sound editing and mix Florian Eidenbenz
music Marcel Vaid
additional sound Ravi Dev Singh, Bigyna Bhushan Dahal
location driver Deepakbhai Dave
syncing Anshul Uniyal
sound studio Magnetix
post-production dcp Andromeda Film AG
post-production coordinator Thomas Krempke
color grading Patrick Lindenmaier
mentor Michael Haslund-Christensen
producers Lutz Konermann, Farida Pacha
for Leafbird Films GmbH (CH)
Awards and Citations
My Name is Salt has been selected by more than 80 international festivals and nominated in more than 50 competitions, winning a total of 34 distinctions.
This made it the most successful Swiss film of its festival season and one of the most successful documentaries worldwide.
Winner IDFA Amsterdam First Appearance Competition 2013
Winner Hong Kong IFF Documentary Competition 2014
Winner DocumentaMadrid Feature Length Documentary Competition 2014
Winner Edinburgh IFF Documentary Competition 2014
Winner German Camera Award 2014
Winner Cinematography Award, BIDF Budapest 2014
Winner Pelicam Documentary Film Festival, Tulcea 2014
Winner Food Film Festival, Amsterdam 2014
Winner Small Gate of Freedom Award, Gdansk 2014
Winner CinemAmbiente Iren Award, Torino 2014
Winner Best Documentary Award, Baikal Film Festival Irkutsk 2014
Winner Feature Length Award, Tutti Nello Stesso Piatto, Trento 2014
Winner Prix Anthropologie et Dév. Durable, Festival Jean Rouch Paris 2014
Winner Grand Prix Filmer Le Travail, Poitiers 2015
Winner Best Film Award, EcoCup, Moscow 2015
Winner Best of Fest Award, CMS Vatavaran, New Delhi 2015
Winner Best Cinematography Award, CMS Vatavaran, New Delhi 2015
Winner Audience Award, Provinziale, Eberswalde 2015
Winner Platinum Award, World Humanitarian Awards, Jakarta 2015
Winner Bronze Drop, World Water Forum, Daegu/South Korea 2015
Winner Horizonte-Award, 5-Seen-Filmfestival, Starnberg 2015
Winner Aljazeera Documentary Film Festival, Doha 2015
Winner Best Documentary, BaNeFF doc:short, Stockholm 2015
Winner Best Feature Length Documentary, MIFF, Mumbai 2016
Winner Best Cinematography, MIFF, Mumbai 2016
Winner Young Jury Award, Pêcheurs du Monde, Lorient 2016
Winner Outstanding Excellence Award, IFFEHC, Jakarta 2016
Click here to watch the film (from Friday, 11th September, 2020, 6 pm only)
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