Machines

Documentary, India / Germany / Finland, 2016
HD – Color – Run time: 71 min – Dolby Atmos
Release Date Germany: 09.11.2017
World premiere:17.11.2016 – IDFA Documentary Festival – Competition

www.machines-themovie.com

Production:
A Indian-German-Finnish co-production between
JANN PICTURES, PALLAS FILM, IV FILMS LTD

supported by:
MDM-Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, The Finish Film Foundation, YLE, AVEK, IDFA Bertha Fund

World sales: Autlook Films

Director: Rahul Jain

Producers: Rahul Jain, Thanassis Karathanos, Iikka Vehkalahti

Press contact: ZOOM Medienfabrik

Director Rahul Jain presents an intimate, observantly portrayal of the rhythm of life and work in a gigantic textile factory in Gujarat, India. Moving through the corridors and bowels of the enormous and disorientating structure, the camera takes the viewer on a journey to a place of dehumanising physical labor and intense hardship, provoking cause for thought about persistent pre-industrial working conditions and the huge divide between first world and developing countries. Since the 1960s the area of Sachin in western India has undergone unprecedented, unregulated industrialisation, exemplified in its numerous textile factories. MACHINES portraits only one of these factories, while at the same time representing the thousands of labourers working, living and suffering in an environment they can’t escape without unity. With strong visual language, memorable images and carefully selected interviews of the workers themselves, Jain tells a story of inequality and oppression, humans and machines.

Director: Rahul Jain

Producer: Rahul Jain, Thanassis Karathanos, Iikka Vehkalahti

DoP: Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva

Editing: Yaël Bitton, Rahul Jain

Sound: Susmit ‘Bob’ Nath

Sound Design: Susmit ‘Bob’ Nath

Mixing: Adrian Baumeister

Digital Colorist: Gregor Pfüller

Post Production Facilities: The Post Republic Halle, Pom’Zed Paris

Production Manager GER: Carlo Märzke

Line Producer GER: Martin Hampel

World sales: Autlook Films

World premiere:
IDFA Documentary Festival (Amsterdam/NL) – Competition‎ / 17 th November 2016
(Producers award)

Awards:
+ “Human Values Award” of the hellenic parliament @ Thessaloniki DFF
+ Fipresci Award @ Thessaloniki DFF
+ International Jury Award @ Thessaloniki DFF
+ World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Excellence in Cinematography @ Sundance
+ Golden Eye Award for Best International Documentary Film @ Zurich FF
+ Silver Gateway Award @ Mumbai FF
+ The Grierson Award 2017 for Best Single Documentary – International / Channel 4

Festivals:
Sundance Film Festival 2017 – World Cinema Documentary Competition
Docpoint Talinn
CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival
Vilnius IFF – Vilnius International Film Festival / Lithuania
Movies that Matter Festival / Netherlands
docville FF
Ljubljana Documentary Film Festival / Slovenia
Sofia IFF
DocuDays Ukraine
Docpoint Helsinki
Frames of Representation @ ICA London
Doc Fortnight
ONE WORLD FESTIVAL
IDFA