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My Name Is Salt (2015)

My Name Is Salt poster
Directed by
Farida Pacha
Genre
documentary film
Country
India, Switzerland
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
S
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film follows salt farmers in the Rann marsh in Gujarat, India. It shows the hard and careful work they do to harvest salt from the land.

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What happens

My Name Is Salt ist ein indisch-schweizerischer Dokumentarfilm von Farida Pacha, der die indischen Salzbauern bei der Gewinnung des „weißen Goldes“ im Rann-Sumpf im nordwestlichen Bundesstaat Gujarat begleitet. Die Premiere des Films war am 24. September 2013 beim International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. In der Schweiz startete der Film am 18. September 2014, in Deutschland am 12. November 2015 in den Kinos. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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