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Documentary film The Golden Thread

Outside Kolkata, several jute mills crank on, virtually unchanged since the industrial revolution. Powered by steam and sweat, work is a dance to the dictates of profit and century-old machines. The Golden Thread puts the analogue and digital, the early industrial and post-industrial, into experimental recombination. Having once discarded jute for polythene, the film questions industrial capitalism and its driving force – obsolescence.  

Production and distribution

Production Year:
2022
Production country:
India
Bosnia and Herzegovina
UK
Co production country:
Netherlands
Norway
Release date (international):
2022-11-14
Production company:
Raintree Films
Koleks d.o.o. DOKUDOM
Taskovski Films Ltd
Co production company:
Zeppers Film
Antipode Films
Executive producer:
Irena Taskovski
Producer:
Nishtha Jain
Irena Taskovski
Co producer:
Frank van den Engel
Fabien Greenberg
Bård Kjøge Rønning
Sales agent:
Taskovski Films Ltd

Director

  • Nishtha Jain

    Nishtha Jain was born in New Delhi, India. She studied film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.  Since 2002 she’s been working as an independent filmmaker and is currently based in Mumbai.  Her films have received several international awards and have been extensively shown in international film festivals and art/photo exhibitions. Her 2008 film Lakshmi and Me was nominated for the Silver Wolf Award, IDFA, Amsterdam and won award for the Best documentary, at Flahertiana International Film Festival, Russia; Bucharest International Film Festival; New York Indian Film Festival; IDPA, India; Special Jury Prize at Cinema Verite International Film Festival, Tehran and Golden Apricot International Film Festival, Yerevan; Jury Special Mention, Doc Planete Review, Warsaw.  

    Filmography (Direction)  

    The Golden Thread, 2022 

    Gulabi Gang,  2012 

    Family Album, 2010  

    At My Doorstep, 2009  

    Lakshmi and Me, 2008  

    Six yards to Democracy, 2006  

    Call it Slut, 2006  

    City of Photos, 2005  

    Nishtha Jain

Crew

Director:
Nishtha Jain
Cinematographer:
Rakesh Haridas
Editor:
Alexander Goekjian
Nishtha Jain
Screenplay:
Nishtha Jain
Composer:
Kenneth Ishak
Sound Design:
Niraj Gera
Sound Recording:
Partha Burman
Kalhan Raina
Kinkini Deb

Technical information

Format:
DCP 4k
Colour:
Colour
Length in min's:
91'
Language:
Hindi
Bengali
Subtitles:
English

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