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Araya

Name: Araya
Released: 1959

1959

This lyrical documentary spends a day among the salt-workers of a remote Venezuelan peninsula, where families have harvested salt by hand for five centuries in a timeless, grueling cycle of labor. A hypnotic, poetic masterpiece.

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Part of 9 Essential Films from Venezuela

This film is stop 5 of 9 in the hand-ranked native-cinema route through Venezuela. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.

Watching this film stamps Venezuela in the 196 country film challenge.