The Golden Thread
(86 min;2022; Hindi, Bengali with English subtitles)
A film by Nishtha Jain, a leading documentary filmmaker from India
Winner of the Best Feature Documentary, MIFF 2024 ,Best Sound Design, MIFF 2024, Best Documentary, 42nd Bergamo Film Meeting, Italy 2024 and many others
Outside Kolkata a few jute mills crank on, virtually unchanged since the industrial revolution. Powered by steam and sweat, work is a dance to the rhythms of the century-old machines. The Golden Thread follows the weft and warp of jute work, weaving the 'fibre of the future' with the dreams and desperations of its workers.