SURIRE

Cinematic observational film about an environmentally protected salt flat exploited as a mine while the last native inhabitants watch from their run-down towns how the wealth is extracted from their ancestral lands.

In Iván Osnovikoff and Bettina Perut’s hypnotic documentary, the old and the new, the micro and the macro intertwine. After centuries of living in harmony, desert animals and the last descendants of Aymara culture find their bond threatened by the environmental exploitation of the Surire salt flat.