Copyright 2026, Documentary Educational Resources https://store.der.org/pacha-farida-c488all.aspx Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:28:28 GMT 60 Nexternal RSS 2.0 en-us https://store.der.org/my-name-is-salt-p646.aspx Product646 Tue, 28 Aug 2018 14:50:00 GMT <div style="float:left"><a class="url" href="https://store.der.org/my-name-is-salt-p646.aspx"><img src="//cdn.nexternal.com/der/images/my-name-is-salt.jpg" alt="My Name is Salt" border="0" hspace="3"></a></div><span class="riRssTitle"><a href="https://store.der.org/my-name-is-salt-p646.aspx">My Name is Salt</a></span><br><a href="https://store.der.org/my-name-is-salt-p646.aspx">Buy Now:</a> <span color="#990000"><b>$340.00</b></span> <br /><br /><div>Year after year, Sanabhai brings his family to a seasonal saline desert in Gujarat India, where they harvest what they proudly proclaim to be the world's whitest salt, using the same painstaking, manual techniques as generations before them.&nbsp;<div><br /></div><div>Hardship and exploitation loom large in this film, but director Farida Pacha lets this speak for itself, instead fixing her gaze on the poetry and ritual of Sanabhai and his family's existence. Exquisite camerawork and a haunting score help Pacha expose the austere beauty of the subject.</div><div><br /></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div>“A beautifully-crafted meditation on the grueling work of salt production. [...] Director Farida Pacha and her cinematographer Lutz Konermann manage to distill this process into something exquisite, a film crystalline in its austere purity, like the commodity of the title. [...] Every one of Konermann's shots is damn near perfectly composed and balanced.”&nbsp;</div><div>— Leslie Felperin, <i>The Hollywood Reporter</i></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>“Crisply sculpted out of found elements [...] it's a meditative, immersive picture of labour as an act of faith, made with striking flair and beauty.”&nbsp;</div><div>— Nick Bradshaw, <i>Sight &amp; Sound</i></div></div></blockquote><br /><div><hr><br /></div><div><b>SELECTED SCREENINGS & AWARDS</b></div><div><div style=""><i>Winner, Best Feature Length Documentary, Best Cinematography</i>, Mumbai International Film Festival, 2016</div><div style=""><i>Winner, Audience Award</i>, Provinziale Film Festival, Germany, 2016</div><div style=""><i>Winner, Al Jazeera Documentary Film Festival Award</i>, Doha, Qatar, 2015</div><div style=""><i>Winner, Best Film</i>, Balkan New Film Festival (BaNeFF), Sweden, 2015</div><div style=""><i>Winner, Best of Fest, Best Cinematography</i>, CMS Vatavaran Environment &amp; Wildlife Film Festival, New Dehli, India, 2015</div><div style=""><i>Winner, Horizante Award</i>, Five Lakes Film Festival (FSFF), Bavaria, Germany, 2015</div><div style=""><i>Honorary Mention</i>, FICA Environmental Film Festival, Brazil, 2015</div><div style=""><i>Winner</i>, <i>Firebird Award</i>, Hong Kong International Film Festival, 2014</div><div style=""><i>Winner, First Appearance Award</i>, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, 2013</div></div><br /><br />Visit <a href="https://store.der.org/pacha-farida-c488all.aspx">Pacha, Farida</a> to see additional products in this category.</div>