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My Name is Salt (U)

Documentary

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.

More information on this production is available at mynameissalt.com.

The critical consensus

Punishingly poetic profile filmed in breathtaking surroundings.

****(*)David Parkinson, Empire Online, 09/03/2015

My Name is Salt is not an expose of exploitation or suffering – although it is an unavoidable fact that these families remain in poverty – but a surprisingly uplifting celebration of exceptional human achievement.

****(*)Nikki Baughan, The List, 09/03/2015

The latest entry in the expanding subgenre of documentaries about food production is a beautifully made film about craftsmanship and endurance.

****(*)Leslie Felperin, The Guardian, 12/03/2015

A sleepy take on back-breaking labour.

Sophie Monks Kaufman, Little White Lies, 12/03/2015

The infinitesimal nature of humankind in the face of the environment is poetically essayed in this starkly beautiful documentary.

***(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 14/03/2015

Where and when?

Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Friday March 13, 2015, until Tuesday March 17, 2015. More info: www.filmhousecinema.com

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