The Salt of the Earth

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The Salt of the Earth is an Academy Award nominated documentary co-directed by Wim Wenders (Pina) and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, son of the film’s subject, photographer Sebastião Salgado.

For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has 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. Sebastião Salgado’s life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last travels, and by Wim Wenders, himself a photographer.

Wenders knew going in to production that the doc would tell two different story lines: the profile of Sebastião and his dynamic with his son. “From the outset, our film had several dimensions. The father-son relationship was also clearly part of it from the start. It could have turned out to be a pitfall for the film, and I think that the Salgados – father and son – were right to bring me in to avoid any risk of that happening.”

The Salt of the Earth is rated PG.