For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity.
He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus. He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic project, which is a tribute to the planet’s beauty.
Sebastião Salgado’s life and work are revealed by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last travels, and by Wim Wenders, himself a photographer.
CREW
Directed by Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Screenplay by Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders, David Rosier
Cinematography Hugo Barbier, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Sound by Régis Muller Edited by Maxine Goedicke, Rob Myers Music Laurent Petitgand
Executive Producer Wim Wenders
Producer David Rosier
Coproduction Amazonas images, Solares delle arti
Production Manager David Rosier
With the support of La Région-Ile-de-France
With support of Les Amis de la Maison Européenne de la Photographie5 6
ABOUT THE DIRECTORS
Wim Wenders was born in Düsseldorf in 1945. After two years of studying medicine and philosophy and a year-long stay in Paris as a painter, he attended the University of Television and Film in Munich from 1967 to 1970.
Wim Wenders became a member of the Academy of Arts Berlin in 1984. He was awarded honorary doctorates at the Sorbonne University in Paris (1989), the Theological Faculty of the University of Fribourg (1995), the University of Louvain (2005) and the Architectural Faculty of the University of Catania (2010). He is a founding member and president of the European Film Academy and member of the order Pour le Mérite. Currently he is teaching film as a professor at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg. Win Wenders co-authored the book Inventing Peace with Mary Zournazi, published by I.B. Tauris, London.
Wenders is currently in post-production with his upcoming 3D feature film EVERY THING WILL BE FINE, starring James Franco, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Rachel McAdams.
He lives in Berlin, together with his wife, photographer Donata Wenders.7
Filmography of Wim Wenders
Feature Films and Documentaries
2011 – Pina (3D)
2008 – Palermo Shooting
2005 – Don’t Come Knocking
2004 – Land of Plenty
2003 – The Blues Series: The Soul of a Man
2002 – Ode to Cologne
2000 – The Million Dollar Hotel
1998 – Buena Vista Social Club
1997 – The End of Violence
1996 – A Trick of the Light
1995 – Beyond the Clouds (with Michelangelo Antonioni)
1994 – Lisbonne Story
1993 – Faraway, So Close!
1991 – Until The End of the World
1989 – Notebook on Cities and Clothes
1987 – Wings of Desire
1985 – Tokyo-Ga
1984 – Paris, Texas
1982 – Hammett
1981 – L’Etat des choses
1980 – Nick’s Film – Lighting over Water
1977 – The American Friend
1976 – Kings of the Road
1975 – Wrong Move
1973 – Alice in the Cites
1972 – The Scarlet Letter
1971 – The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty
1970 – Summer in the City8
ABOUT THE DIRECTORS
Juliano Ribeiro Salgado was born in 1974 in Paris, where he grew up in a Franco-Brazilian environment. In 1996, he made his first documentary for Arte, Suzana, on the use of anti-personnel mines in Angola. Other documentaries followed, made in Ethiopia, Afghanistan and Brazil. At the same time, he made news reports for Canal+ in France and for TV Globo in Brazil. Salgado then entered the London Film School, from which he graduated in 2003.
Juliano Ribeiro Salgado has made a number of short films and documentaries for French television. His 2009 film, “Nauru an Island adrift.“, made for the Grand Format documentary unit of Arte, was selected by numerous international festivals (Hot Docs in Toronto and Le Festival Dei Populo in Florence).
He is now working on his first feature-length film that is to be filmed in Sáo Paolo, Brazil.
