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My Name Is Salt

Switzerland, November 2013
FILM, Documentary, 92 min.

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directed by
Farida Pacha
Written by
Farida Pacha
Status
In distribution
Website
www.mynameissalt.com

The desert extends endlessly. There is not a tree or blade of grass or rock. But there is one thing in abundance: salt, lying just beneath the baked surface of the earth. This is the Little Rann of Kutch, 5'000 square kilometers of saline desert in Gujarat, India. And for eight months of the year, 40'000 families live here without water, electricity or provisions – laboriously extracting salt from this desolate landscape. Every monsoon their salt fields are washed away, as the desert turns into sea. And still they will return, striving to make the whitest salt in the world.

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World Premiere
November 2013
Original Version
Gujarati (french/english/german subtitles),  colour, DCP, 92 min.
ISAN
0000-0003-A771-0000-D-0000-0000-Z
Production
Leafbird Films GmbH
Producer
Lutz Konermann, Farida Pacha
directed by
Farida Pacha
Written by
Farida Pacha
Cinemato­graphy
Lutz Konermann
Editing
Katharina Fiedler
Sound Editing
Florian Eidenbenz
Sound Design
Florian Eidenbenz
Re-Recording Mix
Florian Eidenbenz
Music
Marcel Vaid
Location Sound Mix
Sanjeev Gupta, Ramesh Birajdar

World Sales / World Rights

World Sales
Magnetfilm GmbH

Worldwide Distribution

Austria
Cinematograph Filmverleih Distribution
Release date: 30.01.2015
Germany
Kairos Filmverleih Distribution
Release date: 12.11.2015
Netherlands
IDFA Bertha Fund Distribution
Switzerland
trigon-film Distribution
Release date: 18.09.2014
United Kingdom
Filmhouse Distribution

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