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Les Misérables, Sorry We Missed You et Bellingcat l'emportent au Festival du film de Rab

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- La toute première édition du festival croate dédié au cinéma d'enquête, organisé sur l'île de Rab, s'est avérée un triomphe auprès du public

Les Misérables, Sorry We Missed You et Bellingcat l'emportent au Festival du film de Rab
Les acteurs des Misérables, Almamy Mam Kanoute et Djebril Didier Zonga, et le réalisateur Ladj Ly à l'ouverture du Festival du film de Rab

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The first edition of the Rab Film Festival (RAFF), which took place from 23-27 August on the Croatian island of Rab, saw Ladj Ly's Les Misérables [+lire aussi :
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, Ken Loach's Sorry We Missed You [+lire aussi :
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and Hans Pool's Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World [+lire aussi :
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pick up the RAFF Frame Awards.

The newly established event is dedicated to investigative cinema, and is headed up by investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker Robert Tomic Zuber. The selection featured six films in the documentary competition and five in the fiction section.

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The jury, consisting of Sarajevo Film Festival documentary programmer Rada Sesic, Croatian director Antonio Nuic and actress Tihana Lazovic, gave out the RAFF Frame Award for Best Fiction Film to Loach's film, and the Best Documentary Award to the IDFA title about the “citizen investigative journalist” collective.

Ly's Cannes Jury Prize winner, which officially opened the festival, won the Audience Award.

The Rab audiences showed a great deal of interest in the new event, filling up the local open-air Summer Cinema, which has a capacity of 450 seats, every night. The afternoons were dedicated to educational and discursive programmes under the title RAFF Generation, which included lectures by HBO's Success writer Marjan Alčevski; ZagrebDox director and documentary filmmaker Nenad Puhovski; director Dana Budisavljević, whose multiple national award winner The Diary of Diana B. [+lire aussi :
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enjoyed an out-of-competition screening; and cinematographer Raul Brzić.

In collaboration with HBO Adria, the festival screened the first two episodes of Chernobyl and organised a talk with Stellan Skarsgård via video link. The talk was moderated by Maša Marković, of Sarajevo Film Festival's Dealing with the Past industry section, one of the RAFF partners, who also brought along the closing film, Born in Evin [+lire aussi :
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by Maryam Zaree.

RAFF is organised in collaboration with the City of Rab and Rab Open University.

Here is the full list of RAFF award winners:

RAFF Frame Award for Best Fiction Film
Sorry We Missed You [+lire aussi :
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Q&A : Ken Loach
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- Ken Loach (UK/France/Belgium)

RAFF Frame Award for Best Documentary Film
Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World [+lire aussi :
bande-annonce
fiche film
]
- Hans Pool (Netherlands)

Audience Award
Les Misérables [+lire aussi :
critique
bande-annonce
interview : Ladj Ly
fiche film
]
- Ladj Ly (France)

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