The Golden Thread
Built in the jute boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, West Bengal’s remaining mills are at last losing out to rapid industrialisation. This textured, meditative documentary, which received a special jury mention at the 2023 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, gives space to the labour and the hopes of the workers who produce the coarse fibre as they fight for minimum wage. The film’s sound design is tuned to every little element – the fibre dust hanging in the air; the jute being swept and pressed into shapes. The Golden Thread lovingly, carefully journeys from the mills to the fields where jute is stacked, to the children of jute workers dreaming of elsewhere.
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Special Guests
Nishtha Jain is an Indian film director and producer best known for her documentaries Gulabi Gang (2012), The Golden Thread (2022), and Lakshmi and Me (2007). Her eleventh and most recent film, Farming the Revolution (2024), won the Best International Documentary Prize at Hot Docs.
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