
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Observer (UK)Mark KermodeCinematographer Lutz Konermann captures the backbreaking beauty of it all, while director Pacha finds her way into the very heart of this timeless ritual. |
| Empire MagazineDavid ParkinsonPunishingly poetic profile filmed in breathtaking surroundings. |
| GuardianLeslie FelperinA mesmerising, lyrical work about endurance, craftsmanship and family dynamics, all unfolding in a stunningly bleak landscape, where abandoned bicycles and machinery pepper the ground. |
| The ListNikki BaughanDespite the unimaginable hardships to which it bears witness, My Name is Salt is not an expose of exploitation or suffering ... but a surprisingly uplifting celebration of exceptional human achievement. |
| ScotsmanAlistair HarknessThe infinitesimal nature of humankind in the face of the environment is poetically essayed in this starkly beautiful documentary about a salt farmer and his family's seasonal struggle to earn a living from India's Gujarati desert. |