Top Priority

Top Priority

★ 8.0IMDb Score
Released:1981-01-01
Genre:Animation
Duration:9 min
Country:Canada
Director:Ishu Patel
Actors:
Production:ONF | NFB
Keywords:third world

Overview:

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.

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