The Salt Year

Independent

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dir.

Ruth Adeyemi

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2025

A camel caravan and its guide walking along a desert ridge against a pale sky
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Plays

0:18

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0:28

of the reel, looped.

A year with one of the last salt caravans crossing the desert on foot. Nine months of footage, almost no dialogue, so the structure comes from the walk itself: dawn, heat, the long stretch in the middle.

We cut 140 hours down to 84 minutes over five months.

Role

Editor

Format

Feature doc · 84 min

Ran on

Festival run

Director: Ruth Adeyemi

DP: Kofi Mensah

Editor: Noa Okafor

Colour: Lena Fosse

Sound design: Aram Petrosyan

© 2026 Noa Okafor. Demo content: fictional projects, reel cut from free Mixkit stock footage.

© 2026 Noa Okafor. Demo content: fictional projects, reel cut from free Mixkit stock footage.

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