On labour, salt, and the poetry of place.

Set on Venezuela’s arid Araya peninsula, Margot Benacerraf’s Araya is a meditative portrait of life shaped by salt, sea, and centuries of labour. With sculptural imagery and poetic rhythm, the film follows three families as they work the salt flats and fish the coast—capturing a way of life on the verge of vanishing.

A landmark of feminist Latin American cinema, Araya blends beauty and endurance in a cinematic form as elemental as its setting.

A film by Margot Benacerraf

year: 1959, length: 90 min.

Language: Spanish with English subtitles.