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Raoul Peck’s ‘Ernest Cole’ Shares Cannes’ L’Oeil D’or Prize For Best Documentary With ‘The Brink Of Dreams’


Cannes Top Doc Prize, the L'Oeil d'or, is shared by Raoul Peck's 'Ernest Cole: Lost and Found' and 'The Break of Dreams' by two Egyptian directors.

The L’Oeil d’or jury – comprised of president Nicolas Philibert, as well as Dyana Gaye, Elise Jalladeau, Francis Legault and Mina Kavani – wrote, “A film that follows the journey of a young South African photographer during the apartheid era. The Brink of Dreams (Les Filles du Nil), a film set in the directors’ native Egypt, premiered in the Critics Week sidebar to Cannes. The jury wrote, “The second takes us to a Coptic village in southern Egypt, in the footsteps of a small group of girls who rebel by forming a street theater troupe.

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