- The documentary Le feu sacré , devoted to the fight of the workers of the Ascoval steelworks to save their factory, was awarded at the Festival du grand reportage (Figra).
- The festival, which broadcast 75 documentaries and major current affairs reports, awarded several prizes.
The workers of the Ascoval steelworks in the spotlight. The documentary by Eric Guéret, Sacred fire , on the fight to find a buyer, steelmakers from Saint-Saulve, in the North, won, on Saturday, the Grand Prix of the 27th international festival of major news reporting and company documentary (Figra).
However, other prizes were awarded on the occasion of this festival, which was held in Le Touquet, in Pas-de-Calais and which broadcast 75 films. The special jury prize was awarded to Anne Poiret's Mosul after the war , the management of Figra said in a press release.
Rape of nuns, electric fishing…
Marie-Pierre Raimbault and Éric Quintin won the Scam Prize for Investigation for their documentary on the rape of nuns by priests and the efforts made by the Vatican to camouflage them, Abused Sisters, the other scandal of the Church .
The Reporters Without Borders prize was awarded to Nuno Escudeiro for La loi et la vallée , which documents the migratory situation in Roya on the Italian border in the Alpes-Maritimes.
The report on the fight against electric fishing Watt the fish won, for its part, the Arnaud Hamelin prize; that on the European powers which continue to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia, War crimes in Yemen, European complicity , the price of the young jury.
From Ivory Coast to Kabul
The public's prize was awarded to the study on The hidden face of cocoa , by Paul Moreira. The film tells the story of how children are enslaved in protected forests in Côte d'Ivoire.
In the category less than 40 minutes, it is the film of Laura Aguirre de Carcer, The forgotten of Kabul , on the fate of the Afghan workers recruited by France during the war, which won the grand prize.
We finish well the big ones , directed by Laurent Follea, Gabrielle Deydier and Valentine Oberti, was doubly awarded, with the price of social energy activities and the price "otherwise seen" of the public.
Finally, Retour à Kigali, a French affair , by Jean-Christophe Klotz, won the Terre (s) d'Histoire award.
Media
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