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Women and children working a green field in rural Tajikistan

Work / Earth Water

NGO · field · Tajikistan

Earth Water

A film from rural Tajikistan, made with the World Food Programme. Fields, schoolyards, kitchens, and the road between them. The work of feeding a place, seen in the place.

The camera stays with the people who keep it going — hoeing the rows, sitting the school meal, riding the last stretch of road. Not a talking head in Dushanbe.

Goal

Show the programme as it is done. For an organisation whose audience lives outside the country as often as in it. English that travels. A film, not coverage.

Outcomes

A film the organisation can use — the field, the school, the vehicle on the track. The look of the work. Cut at home, in Poland.

Directed by
Brendan O’Brien
For
World Food Programme
Location
Rural Tajikistan

Stills

  • A man hoes potato rows against poplar trees and green hills
  • A woman works the soil with a shovel while a child crouches beside her
  • A reservoir and green hills seen through tall grass
  • A switchback road winding through dry hills
  • A village sign for Shingovad on a mountain road
  • A vehicle on a dirt road beside a dry riverbed, seen from another car
  • A hand holding dried peas from an open sack
  • A boy with a bucket strapped to a bicycle, leaning against an adobe wall
  • A schoolgirl in uniform eating from a bowl
  • A World Food Programme land cruiser parked on a muddy track
  • Schoolchildren and visitors gathered on the steps of a rural school
  • A classroom in rural Tajikistan, visitors standing with pupils at their desks