Info
Synopsis
Crew
Awards
Genre
- documentary
Countries of Production
- India / Germany / Finland
Language
- Hindi
World premiere
- 17th November 2016 – IDFA Documentary Festival – in competition
German cinema release
- 9th November 2017
a production by
- Jann Pictures, Pallas Film, IV Films Ltd
in association with
- YLE, AVEK
World Sales
- Autlook films
Distribution
- Pallas Film
Director Rahul Jain presents an intimate, observational 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. […] 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. (imdb)
Written by
- Rahul Jain
Directed by
- Rahul Jain
Producers
- Rahul Jain, Thanassis Karathanos, Iikka Vehkalahti
Director of photography
- Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva
Editor
- Yaël Bitton, Rahul Jain
Location Sound Recordist & Sound Design
- Susmit 'Bob' Nath
Mixing Engineer
- 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
- Sundance FF – World Cinema Documentary Competition, USA
- Docpoint Helsinki, Finland
- Docpoint Tallinn, Estonia
- Doc Fortnight – MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media – opening film, USA
- CPH:DOX – Copenhagen IDFF, Denmark
- Vilnius IFF, Lithuania
- Movies that Matter Festival, Netherlands
- DOCVILLE IDFF, Belgium
- Ljubljana Documentary FF, Slovenia
- It’s All True IDFF, Brasilia
- Sofia IFF, Bulgaria
- DocuDays, Ukrain
- Frames of Representation at ICA London
- Hot Docs IDFF, Canada
- Millennium Docs Against Gravity FF Poland
- Documentamadrid – in competition, Spain
- CinéDOC-Tbilisi, Georgia
- Docaviv – in competition, Israel
- TRT Documentary Days, Turkey
- Docsbarcelona, Spain
- Transilvania IFF, Romania
- Lemesos IDFF, Cyprus
- Melbourne IFF, Australia
- MakeDox, North Macedonia
- Duhok IFF, Irak / Kurdistan
- IFF of Asian Pacific, Russia
- Cine Migrante IFF, Argentina
- Bergen IFF, Norway
- YAMAGATA IDFF, Japan
- ONE WORLD – International Human Rights Documentary FF, Czech Republic
- Zurich FF, Switzerland
- Viennale - Vienna IFF, Austria
- DOK Leipzig - IFF for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany
- 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
- Best International Documentary / Zürich FF
- Silver Gateway Award / Mumbai FF
- The Grierson Award 2017 for Best Single Documentary - International / Channel 4
