My Name Is Salt
Switzerland, November 2013
FILM,
Documentary,
92 min.
- directed by
- Farida Pacha
- Written by
- Farida Pacha
- Status
- In distribution
- Website
- www.mynameissalt.com
Le désert s’étend à l’infini – monotone, gris, impitoyable. Pas un seul arbre, pas une seule herbe, pas un seul rocher. Il n’y a qu’une seule chose qu’on trouve en abondance: le sel. Du sel partout, à quelques mètres seulement de la surface, cuite par le soleil. Nous parlons du petit désert du Kutch, un ancien golfe de 5000 kilomètres carrés. Huit mois dans l’année, 40 000 familles vivent ici et tentent, au prix d’un travail épuisant, d’arracher du sel à ce paysage aride. A chaque mousson, les champs de sel sont emportés par l’eau et le désert se transforme en mer. Mais les familles reviennent et continuent de produire le sel le plus blanc de la terre.
credits
- 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
Awards
(a selection)
- Mumbai, Mumbai International Film Festival, Best Cinematography 2016 (Winner)
- Mumbai, Mumbai International Film Festival, Best Feature Length Documentary 2016 (Winner)
- Extravagant India International Indian Film Festival, Special Jury Mention 2015 (Winner)
- Doha, Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival, Winner Best Documentary 2015 (Winner)
- Fünf-Seen-Land, Fünf Seen Filmfestival, Horizonte Filmpreis 2015 (Winner)
- Filmfest Eberswalde, Publikumspreis Dokumentarfilm (ab 45 Min) 2015 (Winner)
- Stockholm, BaNeFF doc.short, Best Documentary 2015 (Winner)
- Festival International Filmer le travail, Grand Prix "Filmer le travail" 2015 (Winner)
- Goiania, FICA International Festival of Environmental Film and Video, Honoray Mention 2015 (Winner)
- CMS Vatavaran Environment & Wildlife Film Festival, Best of Fest Award 2015 (Winner)
- CMS Vatavaran Environment & Wildlife Film Festival, Best Cinematography Award 2015 (Winner)
- Hong Kong, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Firebird Award 2014 (Winner)
- Madrid, Documenta Madrid Festival Internacional de Documentales de Madrid, First Price of the Jury 2014 (Winner)
- Food Film Festival, Best Feature Length Food Film 2014 (Winner)
- Bled Film Festival, Special Jury Mention 2014 (Winner)
- Dokufest International Documentary and Shortfilm Festival Prizren, Green Dox - Special Mention 2014 (Winner)
- Festival Tutti Nello Stesso Piatto, Feature Length Documentary Award 2014 (Winner)
- Bozcaada International Festival of Ecological Documentary, Third Prize 2014 (Winner)
- Torino, Environmental Film Festival - Cinemambiente, Iren Award 2014 (Winner)
- Festival International Jean Rouch, Prix Anthropologie et Developement Durable 2014 (Winner)
- Edinburgh, Edinburgh International Film Festival, AWFJ Jury Award 2014 (Winner)
- Pelicam International Film Festival, Pelicam for Best Long Feature Documentary 2014 (Winner)
- Budapest International Documentary Festival, Cinematography Award 2014 (Winner)
- Baikal International Festival of Documentary, Best Documentary Award 2014 (Winner)
- Gdansk Doc Film Festival, Special Mention of the Jury 2014 (Winner)
- Mexico, Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de la Ciudad de México, Mención especial 2014 (Winner)
- Edinburgh, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Best Documentary Feature Film 2014 (Winner)
- Amsterdam, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, IDFA Award for First Appearance 2013 (Winner)
- Moskau, Green Film Net Work, Best Film Award EcoCup 2015 (Winner)
- Djakarta, World Humanitarian Award, International Humanitarian Platinum Awards 2015 (Winner)
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Köln, Deutscher Kamerapreis,
Deutscher Kamerapreis Kategorie Dokumentarfilm / Dokumentation
2014
(Winner)
Lutz Konermann - Bronze Drop (Winner)
Festivals
(a selection)
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Mumbai, 14th Mumbai International Film Festival
28.01.2016 - 03.02.2016 -
Doha, 11th Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival
26.11.2015 - 29.11.2015 -
Biberach, 37. Biberacher Filmfestspiele
04.11.2015 - 08.11.2015 -
CMS Vatavaran Environment & Wildlife Film Festival
09.10.2015 - 13.10.2015 -
12. Internationales Filmfest Eberswalde
03.10.2015 - 10.10.2015 -
Haifa, 31st International Film Festival Haifa
26.09.2015 - 05.10.2015 -
Goiania, FICA International Festival of Environmental Film and Video
11.08.2015 - 16.08.2015 -
Fünf-Seen-Land, 9. Fünf Seen Filmfestival
29.07.2015 - 09.08.2015 -
La Rochelle, 43e Festival International du Film de La Rochelle
26.06.2015 - 05.07.2015 -
San Francisco Green Film Festival
28.05.2015 - 03.06.2015
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Europe on Screen Festival
01.05.2015 - 10.05.2015 -
Washington Environment Film Festival
17.03.2015 - 29.03.2015 -
Créteil, 37e Festival International de Films de Femmes Créteil
13.03.2015 - 22.03.2015 -
Sofia, 19th Sofia International Film Festival
05.03.2015 - 15.03.2015 -
Extravagant India International Indian Film Festival
04.03.2015 - 10.03.2015 -
Stockholm, BaNeFF doc.short
12.02.2015 - 15.02.2015 -
6e Festival International Filmer le Travail
06.02.2015 - 15.02.2015 -
Helsinki, 14th DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival
27.01.2015 - 01.02.2015 -
Solothurn, 50. Solothurner Filmtage
22.01.2015 - 29.01.2015 -
Tbilisi, 15th Tbilisi International Film Festival
01.12.2014 - 07.12.2014 -
28th Brisbane International Film Festival
29.11.2014 - 14.12.2014 -
Goa, 45th International Film Festival of India, Goa
20.11.2014 - 30.11.2014 -
Bydgoszcz, 22nd IFF of the Art of Cinematography PLUS CAMERIMAGE Bydgoszcz
15.11.2014 - 22.11.2014 -
VI edizione Festival Tutti Nello Stesso Piatto
05.11.2014 - 29.11.2014 -
33e Festival International du Cinéma Ethnographique Jean Rouch
04.11.2014 - 29.11.2014 -
Bozcaada International Festival of Ecological Documentary
30.10.2014 - 02.11.2014 -
Mexico, 9th Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de la Ciudad de México
29.10.2014 - 09.11.2014 -
Vienna, Viennale Vienna International Film Festival
23.10.2014 - 05.11.2014 -
Pwêêdi Wiimîâ (Poindimié), 8e Festival International du Cinéma des Peuples «ânûû-rû âboro»
17.10.2014 - 25.10.2014 -
doc Buenos Aires 14° Muestra Internacional de Cine
16.10.2014 - 26.10.2014 -
XIII Baikal International Festival of documentary and popular science films "People and Environment"
25.09.2014 - 29.09.2014 -
Vancouver, 33rd Vancouver International Film Festival
25.09.2014 - 10.10.2014 -
Budapest International Documentary Festival
24.09.2014 - 28.09.2014 -
St. Petersburg, 24th "Message to Man" International Film Festival St. Petersburg
20.09.2014 - 27.09.2014 -
13th Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival Prizren
16.08.2014 - 24.08.2014 -
Melbourne, 63rd Melbourne International Film Festival
31.07.2014 - 17.08.2014 -
Indisches Filmfestival
16.07.2014 - 20.07.2014 -
Edinburgh, 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival
18.06.2014 - 29.06.2014 -
1st Bled Film Festival
17.06.2014 - 21.06.2014 -
Pelicam International Film Festival
13.06.2014 - 15.06.2014 -
20th Los Angeles Film Festival
10.06.2014 - 19.06.2014 -
Cape Town, 16th Encounters International Documentary Film Festival Cape Town & Johannesburg
05.06.2014 - 15.06.2014 -
12th Gdansk Doc Film Festival
05.06.2014 - 08.06.2014 -
Torino, 17th Environmental Film Festival Cineambiente Torino
31.05.2014 - 05.06.2014 -
Warsaw, 11th Planete + Doc Film Festival Warsaw
10.05.2014 - 19.05.2014 -
Food Film Festival
09.05.2014 - 11.05.2014 -
Munich, 29. DOK.fest Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München
07.05.2014 - 14.05.2014 -
Madrid, Documenta Madrid 14
30.04.2014 - 11.05.2014 -
Hong Kong, 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival
24.03.2014 - 07.04.2014 -
Amsterdam, 26th IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
20.11.2013 - 01.12.2013