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.

DIRECTOR  Farida Pacha // PRODUCED BY  Leafbird Films GmbH (CH) // PRODUCER  Lutz Konermann, Farida Pacha // CINEMATOGRAPHY  Lutz Konermann // FILM EDITOR  Katharina Fiedler // SOUNDDESIGN  Florian Eidenbenz // MUSIC Marcel Vaid

Festivals
IDFA in Amsterdam 2013 / Netherlands
Festival International du film d‘environnement Paris / France
Hong Kong International Film Festival / China
One World Media Award 2014
DOK.fest Munich / Germany
DocumentaMadrid / Spain
Planete + Doc Film Festival / Poland
Food Film Festival Amsterdam / Netherlands
Encounters South African International Documentary Festival
Los Angeles Film Festival / USA
Edinburgh International Film Festival / Scotland
CinemAmbiente Torino / Italy
Pelicam International Film Festival / Romania
Gdansk DocFilm Festival / Poland
Bled Film Festival / Slovenia
Indian Film Festival Stuttgart / Germany
Melbourne International Film Festival / Australia
DokuFest Prizren / Kosovo
Baikal International Film Festival / Russia
Baltic Sea Doc Festival in Riga / Latvia
Message to Man in St. Petersburg / Russia
Vancouver International Film Festival / Canada
Jean-Rouch-Festival in Paris / France
DocsDF in Mexico City / Mexico
People Film Festival in New-Caledonia / France
Film Festival of India in Goa / India
Budapest International Documentary Festival / Hungary
Szczecin European Film Festival / Poland
DocsBuenosAires / Argentina
Viennale / Austria
Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival / Australia
iDOCS International Documentary Forum Beijing / China
Guth Gafa International Documentary Film Festival / Ireland
EthnoFilmFest Munich / Germany
Tbilisi International Film Festival / Georgia
Bozcaada International Festival of Ecological Documentary / Turkey
Cinema Verité Film Festival Tehran / Iran
Film & Cook Gastronomic Film Festival / Spain
World Film Days in Thusis / Switzerland
Festival Sursee / Switzerland
Camerimage, Bydgoszcz / Poland
Tutti nello stesso piatto, Trento / Italy
Festival Internacional de Cine San Cristóbal / Mexico
DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival / Sweden
Solothurner Filmtage / Switzerland
Eco Cup Environmental Film Festival Moskau / Russland
Extravagant India Paris / Frankreich
Festival International de films de femmes de Créteil / Frankreich
Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival São Paulo / Brasilien
Sofia International Film Fest / Bulgarien
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation‘s Capital, Washington DC
Food For Real Film Festival, Liverpool / UK
Asian Women‘s Film Festival, New Delhi / Indien
Wales One World Film Festival, Aberystwyth / UK
World Water Forum, Daegu / South Korea
Green Film Festival San Francisco / USA
EcoZine Film Festival in Zaragoza / Spain
Human Rights Nights Cineteca Bologna / Italy
Europe On Screen Festival, Jakarta / Indonesia
EDOC, Quito / Ecuador
UnderHillFest, Podgorica / Montenegro
Festival International du Film, La Rochelle / France
FICA 2015, City of Goiás / Brazil
CMS Vatavaran Film Festival, New Dehli / India
Fun Seen Festival / Germany
Viscult 2015, Festival of Visual Culture, Joensuu / Finland
Lake Como Film Festival / Italy
Haifa Film Fest / Israel
Planet in Focus, Toronto / Canada
Biberacher Filmfestspiele / Germany
Film South Asia, Katmandu
planeta.doc / Brazil
Al Jazeera Film Festival / Katar
New Balkan Film Festival, Kungsängen / Sweden
Mumbai International Film Festival 2016 / India
Pecheur du Monde, Lorient / France