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SALT

SALT / מלח / ملح / SEL

By Olivier HESPEL

LOUDUN 2000 - as PROD

Environmental - Completed 2019

Amongst the ghosts of the Dead sea, Marianna, Bulos and others share their stories and give an insight on life’s paradoxes and the discomfort of doubt : the salt of our fragile humanity.

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Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (online) 2021

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- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Environmental, Historical, Documentary
- Countries
- BELGIUM, FRANCE
- Languages
- ARABIC, FRENCH, ENGLISH, HEBREW
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 98 mn
- Director(s)
- Olivier HESPEL
- Writer(s)
- Olivier HESPEL
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-5D33-0000-Y-0000-0000-9
- Producer(s)
- Valérie DUPIN (LES PRODUCTIONS DU LAGON (PRIMI)), Olivier DUBOIS (NOVAK PROD), Olivier HESPEL (LOUDUN 2000)
- Synopsis
- My dead mother.
  A jew-born in Nazi Germany, a refugee in France, a resistor, deportee, killed by the Sabra and Chatila massacres because those that lay claim to her legacy, the caretakers of her martyrdom turned into executioners.
  So she gave up the fight against sickness, amnesia, and ignorance.
  
  The Dead sea (pronounced « Dead mother » in french, my mother tongue).
  A lost valley haunted by the ghosts of Sodom, Gomorrha, Moses, Jesus… Where tourists come to float on the surface at the lowest of the world, surrounded by closed borders and minefields.
  
  Here I feel at home amongst ghosts and desolation.
  And I meet Bulos, Marianna, Suleiman and others who like my mother, despite sufferings and oppression, distinguish war from hatred and are ready to pay the price of rejecting givens. And who’s overwhelming desire to live allow them to face the discomfort of doubt and life’s paradoxes head-on : the fragile beauty of our humanity.

SALT

SALT / מלח / ملح / SEL

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