These Hands

Offering one of the most unforgettable and rewarding experiences of recent African cinema, Flora M'mbugu-Schelling's quiet tribute to women at the very bottom of the international economic order ultimately deepens into a mediation on human labor itself. THESE HANDS will stimulate viewers to rethink documentary and to question their own role as consumers in a global economy.

"Certain things you can say with words and certain things you cannot find words for...The time has passed when we can use the classic documentary style. I don't want to offend my audience by telling them what they should see or feel." - Director Flora M'mbugu-Schelling

"In looking at lives that in most ways seem hopeless, THESE HANDS discovers a communal warmth and flashes of joy." - New York Times