Last Shore, The
In January 2017, a video showing a young Gambian man named Pateh Sabally drowning in the waters of Venice’s Grand Canal went viral on social networks. From the shore, passers-by could be heard insulting him, rather than attempting to help. 4,000 kilometres away, the voices and faces of his family tell the story that preceded this tragedy, the story behind the images.
In January 2017, a video of a young Gambian drowning in
the waters of Venice’s Grand Canal went viral on social
networks.
From the shore, passers-by insulted him without helping
him. Filmed with a mobile phone, the body, petrified by the
cold, appears to be sinking despite the lifebuoys thrown in
its direction. He was 22 and his name was Pateh Sabally.
2500 miles away, the voices and faces of his family tell the
story that preceded this tragedy, the story behind the
images…
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Jean-François Ravagnan is a Belgian director. Born in 1983 in Liège, he studied at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Louvain-la-Neuve. Since 2007, he has worked as an assistant director, including for the Dardenne brothers on LORNA’S SILENCE and THE KID WITH A BIKE. In 2015, he directed his short film RENAÎTRE, selected for the International Competition at the Locarno Film Festival. THE LAST SHORE is his first feature documentary and premiered at Visions du Réel. In addition to working on films he pursues a personal photographic practice he describes as a “visual notebook” – an intuitive collection of moments, places, and encounters that, like a “museum of memory,” continually shape his cinematic and theatrical storytelling.