Year after year, just after the monsoon season has finished, thousands of families travel to a bleak desert in Gujerat, 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 spent a season with one of these families, observing the very particular rhythms of their lives.
Get RSVPs for any kind of film screening on Fillum (hosted in any physical space - from your living room to a big auditorium.) Ticketing available now.
There will also be a talk and discussion on Godard's manifesto for filmmaking in the context of May 1968 and the debates around political filmmaking in France.
Filmmaker Pradip Kurbah will also be present at the screening. RSVP at 9560396615 or [email protected]. There will also be an exhibition of illustrations by Biscoot and Rain.
Mira Nair and Adil Hussain in conversation with Shubhra Gupta, on capturing the challenges and anxieties of migrants in films. Free entry. Open to all.