Still from Machines
Still from Machines
 

Machines

by Rahul Jain
An intensely evocative and hypnotic representation of textile factory workers in India’s Gujarat region and a deeply political message for worker's rights.
2016  ·  1h15m  ·  Finland, Germany, India
Hindi
English subs
About the Film
Exhausted labourers in a gigantic textile factory in Gujarat, India, are trapped in an oppressive cycle of poverty. A roving camera captures their harrowing experience deep in the factory’s surreal bowels, a disorienting and labyrinthine series of corridors of rusted machinery. A visceral journey,MACHINES is composed of striking, wordless sequences and intimate exchanges with the workers, who remain stoic in the face of their difficult conditions. Some have travelled from afar to support their families and cling to the job despite its low wages and unreasonable 12-hour shifts. Some even work double shifts, with just an hour in between to eat or nap. With so few options available, they’re stuck with the hardship of slave-like work, their plight illuminating the dehumanizing impact of rapid and unregulated industrialization and pointing to larger shifts in Western India and the world. 
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Festivals and Awards
Sundance Film Festival, World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Excellence in Cinematography
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, International Jury Award
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Human Values Award of the Hellenic parliament
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Fipresci Award
IDFA, Producer’s Award
Sofia International Film Festival
In the Press
Review
Variety
Review
Hollywood Reporter
Editor
Rahul Jain & Yaël Bitton
Cinematographer
Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva
Producer
Thanassis Karathanos, Iikka Vehkalahti and Rahul Jain
Sound Editor
Susmit and Bob‘ Nath
Writer
Rahul Jain
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