Saigneurs

Directed by Raphaël Girardot

In a slaughterhouse—a symbol of a working world that hides its laborers and the “dirty work”—men and women oscillate between pride in their craftsmanship and exhaustion from the labor. They speak of the physical strain, the dangers, and the precariousness of their jobs. They are cutters, slaughterers, skinning workers, stampers, and blooders…