Festival docs in high spirits - The little hands

Le bourg, Salle des fêtes

Festival docs en goguette - The little hands France, Angèle Junet, Sylvain Berger, 2024, 82 minutes. In the presence of co-director Les Petites Mains, the film explores the little-known history of the factory-boarding schools of the 19th century, places of female industrial confinement where teenage girls worked and lived under religious surveillance. In Tarare, a former textile workers' town in the Rhône region, artists take hold of this memory to turn it into a social issue, linking stories from yesterday with voices from today, and giving visibility to a long-silenced working-class and fem…