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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.
Keywords: tmdb.third-world,
mdblist.imdb-short,
imdb.water,
imdb.army,
imdb.peasant,
imdb.independent-film
Production companies: ONF | NFB,
National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Runtime: 9 min.
Released: Jan. 1, 1981
Status: Released
Certification: NR
