Top Priority (1981)

Set in an unspecified Third World country, this animated film, based on a short story by Enver Carim, suggests that "top priority" means different things to governments and to the governed. A drought-stricken family maintains a long and desperate vigil for a cloud of dust on the horizon signalling the arrival of irrigation pipes and pump. They are rewarded with a military convoy instead. Its top priority is a border war with a neighboring state, not pipes for the life-saving water the family must have.

Released Jan. 1, 1981 9 min None+

Genres: Animation, Drama, Short

Keywords: tmdb.third-world, mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.water, imdb.army, imdb.peasant, imdb.independent-film, imdb.village + 4 more, imdb.african, imdb.africa, imdb.water-pump, aspectratio.1-33-1