Eleven minutes to make you thirsty for the end of the world.
A worldwide exodus through the desert begins, in search of the last oasis that offers life on the planet.
Cinematography
Desert as character, sand as sentence.
Sound
Breath and wind replace dialogue entirely.
Direction
Balsategui's debut that trusts silence.
Director
Barbara Balsategui
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in actual drought conditions in Almería, Spain — the same desert used for classic spaghetti westerns, now genuinely dying.
The title 'Shui' (水) is Mandarin for water — a deliberate choice connecting global water crises to non-Western linguistic haunting.
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