WTFF6 – Short Films Competition
Documentary
By Pauline Pastry
France, 2022, 29’
o.v. French, Italian subtitles
Italian Premiere
May 11, 2022, 6.30 PM, Cinema Odeon – Nuova Sala Lampertico – online tickets
Synopsis In 1984, on a February morning, the workers of a knitting factory in France find out with anger about the closing of the plant. The boss has been quietly moving stocks and machines for months. Then these women occupied the factory for 722 days. Among them, Odette, the director’s maternal grandmother.
Director’s bio-filmography Pauline Pastry (1992) graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris specializing in photography and video. Through video, photography, sculpture and publishing, she explores the evolution of the working condition. Her films, among which The Elastic Limit (2017) and Opus (2020), have been shown in several festivals in France and abroad.
Trailer
Directed by Pauline Pastry
Screenplay Pauline Pastry
DOP Pauline Pastry
Sound Pauline Pastry
Editing Pauline Pastry
Sound Editing Christian Phaure
Music Jules Cassignol
Cast Ghislaine Pastry, Dominique Assar, Christian Assar, Gerard Faye, Reine