ABOUT WATER: PEOPLE AND YELLOW CANS

"About Water" tells the three-part story of the element of water and its significance to human existence in three different parts of the world. A seemingly mundane ‘given’ – so often taken for granted – thus becomes a gripping and forthright tale of daily struggle and survival. From the floods and inundations in the Bangladeshi Brahmaputra delta via the once flourishing fishing port and harbor town of Aralsk on the Aral Sea (now landlocked in the barren Kazach steppe), to the daily each-man-for-himself battle over a few jerrycans of clean water in Kibera, Nairobi’s biggest slum. About Water is a documentary Lehrstuck about a major theme: It’s an insistent attempt to throw some questions, doubts and ideas at our views on water, which most of us take for granted and hardly ever challenge.