About Water, People and Yellow Cans

Environment/Nature, Austria/Luxembourg 2008

The Austrian film documentary "Über Wasser" by director Udo Maurer tells in three chapters from three different parts of our earth about the existential importance of the element water for mankind. A seemingly banal and self-evident fact thus becomes an exciting and immediate narrative of the everyday struggle for survival. Despite the water. Without the water. With the water. From the floods and inundations in the Brahmaputra estuary in Bangladesh, to the once flourishing fishing and port city of Aralsk on the Aral Sea, now lost in the arid Kazakh steppe, to the daily struggle of all against all for a few jerry cans of clean water in Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi, Africa. "About Water" is a documentary didactic piece about a big subject: a haunting attempt to shake the self-evidence and familiarity of our everyday life with a few questions, suspicions and doubts.
82 min
HD
Starting at 12
Audio language:
English
Subtitles:
EnglishFrenchGerman

Awards

Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2008 Winner - WWF Award Best Film in the Habitat Section

More information

Director:

Udo Maurer

Composer:

Serge Tonnar

Original title:

Über Wasser, Menschen und gelbe Kanister

Original language:

English

Further titles:

Histoire(s) d'eau, de peuples et de bidons jaunes

Format:

16:9 HD, Color

Age rating:

Starting at 12

Audio language:

English

Subtitles:

EnglishFrenchGerman