Kriti Film Club invites you for its January 2025 screening in New Delhi
MY NAME IS SALT
(92 mins | Gujarati with English subtitles | 2013 | Observational Docu)
Dir. Farida Pacha
OPEN FOR ALL
MY NAME IS SALT
(92 mins | Gujarati with English subtitles | 2013 | Observational Docu)
Dir. Farida Pacha
Prod. Leafbird Films
9th February 2025 (Sunday)
7:00 pm onwards
at Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre
Lodhi Road, New Delhi
About the Film: Year after year, just after the monsoon season has finished, thousands of families travel to a bleak desert in Gujarat, India, where they will stay for an endless eight months and extract salt from the earth, using the same painstaking, manual techniques as generations before them. Director Farida Pacha and cinematographer Lutz Konermann spent a season with one of these families, observing the very particular rhythms of their lives and crafting an exquisite, lyrical film in the process.
9th February 2025 (Sunday)
7:00 pm onwards
at Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre
Lodhi Road, New Delhi
About the Film: Year after year, just after the monsoon season has finished, thousands of families travel to a bleak desert in Gujarat, India, where they will stay for an endless eight months and extract salt from the earth, using the same painstaking, manual techniques as generations before them. Director Farida Pacha and cinematographer Lutz Konermann spent a season with one of these families, observing the very particular rhythms of their lives and crafting an exquisite, lyrical film in the process.
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About the Filmmaker: Farida Pacha is a multiple award-winning independent filmmaker making feature documentaries and short non-fiction films since 2000. Her films have been screened and awarded at numerous international film festivals, including IDFA, Yamagata, Edinburgh, Hong Kong, Madrid and Mumbai among others. Her debut documentary feature My Name is Salt won her 35 international awards and screened at more than a 80 film festivals.
She has been awarded the 2023 Chicken & Egg Award Finalist Development Grant and has previously been supported by the Jan Vrijman Fund, the IDFA Bertha Europe Fund and the Swiss Film Fund for her documentary features Watch Over Me and My Name is Salt. Farida has taught film courses, given master classes in India and Germany, conducted documentary workshops, served on festival juries and mentored young filmmakers. She has an MFA in Cinema from the USA and a Masters in Sociology from Mumbai.
Film Credits - Cinematography: Lutz Konermann; Editing: Katharina Fiedler; Location sound: Sanjeev Gupta, Ramesh Birajdar; Sound editing and mix: Florian Eidenbenz; Music: Marcel Vaid
About the Kriti Film Club: This is an educational initiative of a not-for-profit organisation 'Kriti development praxis and communication team'. For 25 years, we have been screening and discussing documentary films on development, environment, and socially relevant issues, in an effort to positively influence mindsets and behaviour towards creating an equitous, just, and peaceful world. We also curate issue-based film festivals and organise documentary film shows in neighbourhoods, communities, schools, colleges, or institutions on request and otherwise. The Kriti Film Club has been screening independent cinema (non-fiction and fiction) regularly and independently (without any funding) in Delhi, Mumbai and other parts of India and online (Doculive.blogspot.com), to promote 'thought-provoking cinema' #impactcinema
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OPEN FOR ALL
Walk-ins are welcome!
- Venue is senior citizen and wheelchair assistive
- Nearest Metro stations: Jor Bagh, Khan Market, JLN stadium
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