LA MAIN VERS LE CIEL


Switzerland | 2020 | 3’ | documentary

During an intensive training, young girls learn how to stand, smile to the jury, and defy gravity.

Direction, cinematography, editing: Juliette Menthonnex Many thanks to: CPLM, Christian Miles, Mathieu Delcambre, the team of Montchoisi, Béatrice Meier, Théodora Menthonnex, Myriam Rachmuth, Benjamin Bucher 



Director’s note:
La main vers le ciel
is a short documentary film that seeks to depict, in just a few minutes, the process of shaping, discipline, and social pressures placed on young athletes during training. Their still-childlike faces are marked by innocence, yet a certain strength of character and resistance already shines through in the young skaters.