Top Priority

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.

Date of release
1981-01-01
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
9m
Genres
Animation
Director
Ishu Patel

Interesting facts

Top Priority is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Ishu Patel and released in 1981. Adapted from a short story by South African writer Enver Carim, the film centres on a family in an impoverished country who are in desperate need of water to irrigate their farmland, only to discover that the government prioritizes war with a neighbouring country over the welfare of its own citizens.

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