Crossing Boundaries – films about migration and its realities
THE LAST SHORE
Belgien, Frankreich, Katar 2025 – Director: Jean-François Ravagnan – Original language: Other, Fula – Subtitles: English – Length: 71 min.
In January 2017, a video goes viral on social media. In it, 22-year-old Pateh Sabally drowns in Venice’s Canal Grande, while people on the bank jeer loudly at him. 4000 kilometres away in his homeland of Ghana, his mother, father and brother are left behind. Their stories gently reconstruct a life that was cut way too short. Emily Schuster-Woldan
German premiere
Biography
Jean-François Ravagnan is a Belgian screenwriter, producer and director from Liège. Over the past decade he has worked as assistant director for several films. THE LAST SHORE is his first own feature-length film project.
Filmography (selection)
AILLEURS SI J’Y SUIS / LET’S GET LOST, BE/FR/LU/CH 2022, 103 min. (dir. François Pirot)
UN MONDE / PLAYGROUND, BE 2021, 72 min. (dir. Laura Wandel)
RENAÎTRE / RISE, TN/BE 2015, 23 min.
No youth rating
English/Original Title: LA DERNIÈRE RIVE. Camera: Thomas Schira. Sound: Arnaud Soulier. Editing: Marc Recchia. Music: Jean Kapsa. Production: Dérives. Producer: Julie Frères.
