Content Details
The Golden Thread
Duration: 86’
Language: Hindi, Bengali
Subtitle: English
Production Year: 2022
Format: 2K 4K HD
Director: Nishtha Jain
Origin: India, UK, Bosna Hercegovina, Netherlands & Norway
SYNOPSIS
At the outskirts of Kolkata, the banks of the river Hooghly are lined with jetties and huge factories in various states of operation and decay. Some industrial chimneys belch smoke while others have trees growing out of them. This is the landscape of West Bengal’s 165-year-old jute industry, which once produced the ubiquitous gunny bags, rope, and jute textiles used by trade and commerce around the world. Almost all of these functions have been largely replaced by plastic, which is perhaps more durable but certainly environmentally disastrous.
AWARDS
World Premiere: IDFA 2022 – Masters, FIPADOC 2023, Movies That Matter 2023, San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival 2023, DOK.fest München 2023, Festival International Jean Rouch 2023, DOC-Cévennes 2023, Festival Internacional de Cine Medioambiental de Canaria 2023, EU-Asia Doc Fest 2023, Festival International du Film de Nancy 2023, Five Lakes Filmfestival 2023, Zurich Film Festival 2023, Montrose LandxSea Film Fest 2023, Le Grand Bivouac 2023 – Grand Jury Award, Provinziale 2023 – Jury Award “The Prickle”, Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2023 – Audience Award, Cine Eco Seia 2023 – Best Long International Documentary, DokuBaku 2023 – DocuDarwin Award, DOXA Documentary Film Festival 2023 – Special Jury Mention, Independent FilmFest Osnabrück 2023, Verzio Doc Film Festival 2023, Buffalo Film Festival 2023, MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2023, This Human World 2023, Anthropological Film Festival Jerusalem 2023, Dharamshala International Film Festival 2023, Hainan Island International Film Festival 2023, International Documentary Film Festival “ Cinema Verite” 2023 – Best Feature Film, Pune International Film Festival 2024, Diorama International Film Festival & Market 2024, Kolkata People’s Film Festival 2024, Bergamo Film Meeting 2024, Take One Action 2024, International Film Festival Innsbruck 2024, Taiwan International Documentary Festival 2024, Mumbai International Film Festival 2024, FIFOI (Indian Ocean) 2024, World Film Festival Kolkata 2024