The moving documentary ‘Return to Raqqa’ has been distinguished with the Grand Jury Prizehe Audience Award and the Young Jury Award of the 30th edition of the French festival FIGRA this Saturday. The moving documentary explains the kidnapping, captivity and subsequent release that the war correspondent of EL PERIÓDICO Marc Marginedas suffered by the Islamic State in Syria between 2013 and 2014.
“I’m excited because this is my first FIGRA,” Solé confessed when picking up the night’s award, that of the Public. “This documentary is a love letter to journalism. It is an award for Marc Marginedas and all those who risk their lives in search of information on the ground,” she added in a ceremony broadcast on streaming. He hopes that the three awards will help spread the film in France, which for now has only been distributed in Spain. “I feel very honored”, he highlighted in his last exit to the stage to the warm applause of the spectators. And he recalled the difficulties of shooting the documentary in the midst of a pandemic.
the documentary of Albert Solé and Raúl Cuevas released in January had already been awarded as Best documentary in the Panorama section in the DOCS contest in Valencia.
FIGRA is a festival focused on the Great News Report and the Society Documentary. This year, the Human Rights Award has also been for a documentary also related to journalism: ‘Killing of a journalist’by Matt Sarnecki. It is based on the brutal murder of a journalist and his partner in Slovakia in 2018 that exposed a scandalous case of political corruption.
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‘Return to Raqqa’ is the chronicle of what has been possibly the most famous kidnapping in history, that of 19 journalists and NGO officials of different nationalities who were captured by the Islamic State, as narrated by the Spanish reporter Marc Marginedas, the first captive to be released. Six of the inmates were beheaded in front of a camera by ISIS.
“The Raqqa we went to has great metaphorical power,” Solé explained when she presented the film in Barcelona. “We wanted to find the emotional shock that the return entailed,” he explained before the premiere. The director’s productions have won a lot of awards, including the Goya, two Gaudís, four Biznagas at the Malaga festival and distinctions at festivals all over the world. world.