Araya 1959 Ages 15+
Production still from Araya 1959 / Dir: Margot Benacarraf / Image courtesy: Kino International / View full image
When
1.20 pm, Sun 22 Feb 2026 (90 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art, Cinema A
Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible
Admission
Free
About
'A work of such overwhelming grandeur that Jean Renoir told director Margot Benacerraf after viewing the film, “Above all . . . don’t cut a single image,” this poetic documentary-narrative hybrid is a landmark of both neorealist and feminist South American cinema. For five hundred years, the Araya peninsula in northeastern Venezuela has been mined for its salt. Through images of breathtaking beauty, Benacerraf captures the everyday lives of three families and their back-breaking work in the salt marshes, exquisitely preserving an embattled but tenacious way of life.' Criterion
Ages 15+
Production Credits
- Director: Margot Benacerraf
- Script: Margot Benacerraf, Pierre Seghers
- Cinematographer: Giuseppe Nisoli
- Editor: Pierre Jallaud
- Print Source: Kino Lorber
- Rights: Kino Lorber
- Year: 1959
- Runtime: 90 minutes
- Country: Venezuela
- Language: Spanish
- Subtitles: English
- Colour: Black & White
- Shooting Format: 35mm