Manel Raga Raga

Manel was born in Ulldecona in 1985. After co-directing the documentary short film MATANDO EL SUEÑO (2009), he completed a M.A. in Filmmaking at ESCAC in Barcelona. From 2010 to 2012 he worked as a (...) filmmaker with La Fura dels Baus and in 2013 he presented the short film LA GALLINA in the Venice Film Festival, a film that won more than fifteen awards and that was in many film festivals around the world. In 2017, he completed a PhD of Liberal Arts in Filmmaking at the film.factory of Sarajevo, a school mentored by the Hungarian director Béla Tarr. During this period, he directed the documentary shorts ULLDECONA-UMOLJANI and MANEL VIU A SARAJEVO, and in 2018 he finished GRBAVICA, a short film that is a free adaptation of a Franz Kafka’s tale and that was presented in the Locarno Film Festival. His last documentary short, HOMENATGE A JUDES (2019), was premiered in Doclisboa, where it won the best short film award. Currently he is working in the production of the film KAO MALI LIST.