THE SALT OF THE EARTH
| 2014 – 110′ – A France/Italy/Brazil Co-Production. Documentary, Biopic, Films & Art, Co-Produced by France.
Written by: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado.
Directed by: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado.
Starring: Sebastião Salgado.
Official Selections Cannes International Film Festival 2014 (Un Certain Regard), Telluride International Film Festival 2014, San Sebastian International Film Festival 2014 (Winner Audience Prize). Winner César Award for Best Documentary Feature 2015. Academy Award Nomination for Best Documentary 2015.
In English, in Portuguese and in French with English subtitles.
A Sony Pictures Classics release. |
For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been traveling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He had witnessed some of the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvation and exodus. He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet’s beauty.